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Somewhat tempting to classify the centaur as ‘traditionally male’, yet female centaurs go back to at least 400 BC, so I’m not convinced it’s a strong tradition. Cambions have the fiend type, but they also seem to be half-mortal, so I’m not sure what their reproductive capabilities might be. Some trees have distinct male and female individuals, such as poplars. Tree-related-monsters are a bit of a challenge. I’ve done the best I can with the undead, but there’s a certain amount of inherent arbitrariness in how I’ve classifed them and their depictions. Finally, a monster like an undead skeleton might be depicted as the remains of a sexual corpse, but I personally do not have the expertise to identify the sexual dimorphism present in the human skeleton. They generally either cannot reproduce themselves (zombies, for example) or reproduce in a broadly asexual fashion (wights, perhaps.) Still, they’re generally formed from the corpse of a sexual creature, so there’s that to consider. The undead in general are a bit problematic under this sort of analysis. Aboleths have been around a very long time, and “they never die”, and the average campaign setting is not knee-deep in aboleths together, this implies that aboleths probably either cannot reproduce at all or reproduce in some manner very different from standard biologies. Sexual but Traditionally Depicted as Male, Depicted Ambiguously Sexual but Traditionally Depicted as Female, Depicted Ambiguously Sexual but Traditionally Depicted as Male, Depicted as Male Īmbiguous or Unknown Biology, Depicted as Male Īmbiguous or Unknown Biology, Depicted as Female Īsexual but Traditionally Depicted as Male, Depicted Ambiguously Sexual but Traditionally Depicted as Female, Depicted as Female

Sexual Biology, Depicted Ambiguously Īmbiguous or Unknown Biology, Depicted Ambiguously Īsexual but Traditionally Depicted as Female, Depicted as Female Īsexual but Traditionally Depicted as Male, Depicted as Male Maybe it’s obvious that flumphs reproduce by fission and I just missed it. It is, by its nature, often a judgment call, and I can appreciate that others may have different judgments. More research is always better, so I did some counting myself.Įrgo, changing 9 male illustrations to female illustrations, or 3% of the total illustrations, would result in gender parity. So there’s been a bit of a discussion around the gender distribution of the monsters in the 5E Monster Manual.