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You can add me to the camp that likes simple fighters. I always play Champions and turn my nose up at those other subclasses. Having said that, warlord was my favorite class in D&D 4e. So something is clearly wrong with me.
The good news is that it's not just because you like warlords. Ummm ... wait ... that didn't come out right.
But I agree on the simple fighter bit. It was one of my biggest gripes about 4E - that until 4.5 there was no "simple" fighter. Sometimes I just want to sit, roll some dice andmake fun ofenjoy the company of my friends.
That would be 91%, not 81%. Otherwise your math is correct.Not sure if someone else mentioned this, but at a rough estimate (if my off the top of my head math is right), there is about a 9% increase in the numbers due to multiclassing. There's about 109,000 per 100,000 characters. So at least 81% of characters are not multiclass.
I always got the impression that the Druid was very unpopular in 1e - it was one of the last classes I tried out, myself, and the only thing in the PH I never played at all was the Monk - and the implementation is back closer to the 1e version than ever. Lovely for me, maybe not so much for everyone else.I imagine it's more implementation, at least for 5e.
Again, seems to be perenial dislike. The Gnome was the least popular race for a long time - why it was initially dropped from 4e.Who would have thought that Halflings were so unpopular? People like them for Rogues but little else. The reason why is unclear, but maybe people just don't like playing small guys as the Gnome is also quite low down.
The Sorcerer in 4e had a 'Dragon Sorcerer' build that was very effective with the Dragonborn race (intuitive, too, I suppose). The 4e Dragonborn was also all over the Paladin class both in stat synergy and flavor text, the race being all honorable and worshipping Bahamut, strongly associeated with pallies in that ed.The Race/Class combo I would highlight as underpowered is the Dragonborn Sorcerer - which seems to have initially been built up as an iconic combination
I agree that's key, yes...I can understand the appeal of Humans, ...I think that Humans are just the easiest to relate to for most players, with the various other races often ending up as stereotypes in play.
They're also the most relatable class, just as human is the most relatable race.Fighters are also the most basic class, if people choose Champions especially, so again this may be the appeal.