D&D 5E New D&D Survey, with some in-depth setting questions

[Greg K]

I've already addressed why if they are only expecting 5e responses when asking about making your first character that they are actively poisoning their data. I think they are better at data analytics than that.

You give them much more credit than I do.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This is about the questions like “what did you make your first character with”. Implying Roll20 or DnDBeyond, regardless if you said your first edition was Moldvay Basic. There were several questions that seemed incongruous like that.

The wording is odd, but "PHB" is included in the responses. "Pencil and paper" feels like a more naturalistic response though.

 

[Greg K]

I didn't get a screencap, but I put "Homebrew" for favorite setting and they still had several questions to ask about that, which struck me as interesting.

I did too. My other two choices were Dark Sun and Ravenloft (although not the current version). I would have liked to have included Al Qadim, Greyhawk, and Mystara/Known World (due to the Gazeteers)

 

[Greg K]

Ooh, I found a very basic error in the survey design.



There is no 3-4 hour option! Our sessions last almost exactly 3 1/2 hours.

I never even got that question.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

I would really love to take a long survey right now I don’t feel like doing work. However, I’ve never used any D&D settings for playing D&D in the past 30 years. Is there anything in the survey for us homebrew people?

 

[CleverNickName]

I chose Human, Lizardfolk, and Half-Elf. I wish I could have included Gnomes, Halflings, Half-Ogre, Deva, Fairy (third party), Shifter, Dwarf, and Elf

I guess I'm boring. I voted Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling.

I didn't really feel the need to vote for Human, because that's the one race that they will absolutely never remove from the game, ever. (They'll remove twenty-sided dice before they remove Humans.) There will always need to be a "baseline" race/ancestry/origin, and I'm confident it will always be Human.

 

[Parmandur]

I would really love to take a long survey right now I don’t feel like doing work. However, I’ve never used any D&D settings for playing D&D in the past 30 years. Is there anything in the survey for us homebrew people?

Yes, two distinct options (pure homebrew, and homebrew using parts of official products like Lego bricks) with different fields to checkmark.

 

[Greg K]

Btw, anyone that found that long or in-depth has no experience with some of the surveys I had to conduct on automobiles for major auto conventions or for a certain candy/gift company.
Despite, the brutality of length (and repetition of questions with each class of vehicle), car enthusiasts (excluding those in Chicago) often gladly took the former for a chance at free admission and to both see and give feedback on concept vehicles. I hated doing that survey, but was happy for those that got selected and disappointd for those that did not.
With regards to the candy/gift company, people that finished were guaranteed a discount or credit towards a purchase from the company. I can't recall if there was a chance for anything greater, but some people endured that survey which I hated conducting.

 

[Scribe]

I would really love to take a long survey right now I don’t feel like doing work. However, I’ve never used any D&D settings for playing D&D in the past 30 years. Is there anything in the survey for us homebrew people?

There are a few questions around that, yes.

 

[Greg K]

I guess I'm boring. I voted Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling.

I didn't really feel the need to vote for Human, because that's the one race that they will absolutely never remove from the game, ever. (They'll remove twenty-sided dice before they remove Humans.) There will always need to be a "baseline" race/ancestry/origin, and I'm confident it will always be Human.

If I had to choose just one race, humans will always be my first choice, but my ideal setting is humans only as PCs. I do, however, think WOTC could make them more interesting as did Rich Howard of Tribality in his web artice "Ultimate Adaptability" and Winrar, acegiak, and Aerondrake did in their respective human variants on Reddit/Unearthed Arcana.