D&D 5E Races

Player Handbook & Dungeon Master's Guide

• • Aasimar (Dungeon Master's Guide; but see Volo's Guide to Monsters)

  • Dragonborn

  • Dwarf

    • Hill

    • Mountain

  • Elf

    • Drow

    • Eladrin (Dungeon Master's Guide; but see Mordenkainen's Book of Foes)

    • High 

    • Wood

  • Gnome

    • Forest

    • Rock

  • Half-Elf

  • Halfling

    • Lightfoot

    • Stout

  • Half-Orc

  • Human

  • Tiefling

Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

• • Dragonborn [PHB dragonborn]

  • Dwarves

    • Shield Dwarves [PHB mountain dwarves]

    • Gold Dwarves [PHB hill dwarves]

    • Gray Dwarves (Duergar)

  • Elves

    • Dark Elves (Drow) [PHB dark elves]

    • Moon Elves [PHB high elves]

    • Sun Elves [PHB high elves]

    • Wood Elves [PHB wood elves]

  • Gnomes

    • Deep Gnomes (Svirfneblin) [see also Elemental Evil Player's Guide and Mordenkainen's Book of Foes]

    • Forest Gnomes [PHB forest gnomes]

    • Rock Gnomes [PHB rock gnomes]

  • Half-Elves [PHB half-elves]

    • Variant: Aquatic heritage

    • Variant: Drow descent

    • Variant: Moon elf or sun elf descent

    • Variant: Wood elf descent 

  • Half-Orcs [PHB half-orcs]

  • Halflings

    • Ghostwise Halflings

    • Lightfoot Halflings [PHB lightfoot halflings]

    • Strongheart Halflings [PHB stouts]

  • Human [PHB humans]

  • Tieflings [PHB tieflings]

    • Tiefling variants

Elemental Evil Player's Companion

• • Aarakocra

  • Deep Gnome [see also Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide and Mordenkainen's Book of Foes]

  • Genasi [reprinted from Princes of the Apocalypse]

    • Air Genasi

    • Earth Genasi

    • Fire Genasi

    • Water Genasi

  • Goliath [see also Volo's Guide to Monsters]

Volo's Guide to Monsters

• • Aasimar

  • Firbolg

  • Goliath [reprinted from Elemental Evil Player's Guide]

  • Kenku

  • Lizardfolk

  • Tabaxi

  • Triton

  • Monstrous Adventurers

    • Bugbear

    • Goblin

    • Hobgoblin

    • Orc

    • Kobold

    • Yuan-Ti Pureblood

Mordenkainen's Book of Foes

• Elf

  • Eledrin

  • Sea Elf

  • Shadar-Kai

• Dwarf

  • Duergar [reprinted from Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide]

• Gith

  • Githyanki

  • Githzerai

• Gnome

  • • Deep Gnome [reprinted from Elemental Evil Player's Guide]

• Tiefling

  • Asmodeus [as PHB tiefling]

  • Baalzebul

  • Dispater

  • Fierna

  • Glasya

  • Levistus

  • Mammon

  • Mephistopheles

  • Zariel

Unearthed Arcana

[Excluding races that have appeared in official rulebooks.]

• Elf

  • Avariel ["Elf Subraces," 11/13/2017]

    • Grugach ["Elf Subraces," 11/13/2017]

• Revenant (new subrace) ["Gothic Heroes," 4/4/2016]

  • Shifter ["Eberron," 2/2/2015 (subraces not in official books)]

  • Cliffwalk

    • Razorclaw 

• Tiefling (Variant)

  • Abyssal ["That Old Black Magic," 12/7/2015]

• Viashino ["Races of Ravnica," 8/13/2018]

Plane Shift (Magic: The Gathering)

Plane Shift: Amonkhet

• • Aven

    • Ibis-Headed Aven

    • Hawk-Headed Aven

  • Khenra

  • Human [variant, per PHB]

  • Minotaur

  • Naga

Plane Shift: Dominaria

• • Aven

  • Human

    • Keldon Human

Plane Shift: Innistrad

• • Human

    • Gavony

    • Kessig

    • Nephalia

    • Stensia

Plane Shift: Ixalan

• • Goblin (Ixalan)*

  • Human [as PHB]

  • Merfolk**

    • Blue Merfolk

    • Green Merfolk

  • Orc [as PHB half-orc]

  • Siren

  • Vampire (Ixalan)*

* Goblins and Vampires are similar to the versions of those races in Plane Shift: Zendikar, but are treated as separate races here. (A sidebar gives information about treating each world's version as a separate subrace.)

** Merfolk have the same traits as Zendikar merfolk, but these two subraces are new to Ixalan.

Plane Shift: Kaladesh

• • Aetherborn

  • Dwarves

  • Elves

    • Bishtahar and Tirahar

    • Vahadar

  • Humans [as PHB]

  • Vedalkin

Plane Shift: Zendikar

• • Elves

    • Tajuru Nation

    • Joraga Nation

    • Mul Daya Nation

  • Goblin

    • Grotag Tribe

    • Lavastep Tribe

    • Tuktuk Tribe

  • Human [as PHB]

  • Kor

  • Merfolk

    • Emeria (Wind) Creed

    • Ula (Water) Creed

    • Cosi Creed

  • Vampire

Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica (Magic: The Gathering)

• • Centaur

  • Elf [As PHB]

  • Goblin

  • Human [As PHB]

  • Loxodon

  • Minotaur

  • Simic Hybrid

  • Vedalkin

The Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

• Changeling 

• Kalashtar 

• Shifter 

• Warforged

• Dragonmarks [treated as variant subraces]

  • Dwarf

    • Mark of Warding

  • Elf

    • Mark of Shadow

  • Gnome

    • Mark of Scribing 

  • Half-Elf 

    • Mark of Detection

    • Mark of Storm

  • Half-Orc

    • Mark of Finding

  • Halfling 

    • Mark of Healing 

    • Mark of Hospitality 

  • Human 

    • Mark of Handling 

    • Mark of Making 

    • Mark of Passage

    • Mark of Sentinel