D&D 5E Halflings are the 7th most popular 5e race

[Hussar]

You can’t parse this:


?

It’s not complicated. “Yay for erasure of mixed cultures” then two examples. It’s…really basic stuff. Nothing in that quote remotely implies any direct tie between any given D&D creature and any specific real world culture. It’s…incredible to think you can’t figure that out.

It’s almost hard to even reword it, because I worded it the most obvious way possible the first time, but I’ll try.

You are celebrating the erasure of representation of mixd race cultures. Mixd race culture exist in real life and their identity is more than “partly this and partly that”, but being mixed is absolutely part of their culture.

Removing the only specific and established mixed race identities in the game is erasure.

What is confusing?

Ah. I understand now. It was the Mexico thing that confused me to be honest.

Meh. They’re still in the game but no longer cluttering up the phb. It’s a win AFAIC. Plus now the entire phb is wide open for dealing with mixed cultures.

Edit to add.

I really and truly didn’t understand what you were trying to say before. I wasn’t seriously suggesting anything because I literally could not understand what you were saying. Sorry. Reading fail on my part.

 

[Hussar]

How dare you it’s clearly only because they’re in the PHB! [emoji23]

I know you mean that as a joke but that’s precisely the reason.

After all, you wouldn’t be worried about half elves or half orcs if not being in the phb didn’t matter. They’ll be exactly as popular going forward as they are now. Right? Being in the phb has zero impact on whether a race gets played according to you.

So what’s the problem with moving something out of the phb?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So what’s the problem with moving something out of the phb?

Tradition is the main one, obviously. But even if the did decide to throw tradition out the window, despite the economic cost, and go by popularity, halflings still make it in.

Halflings are a marmite race. People ether love them or hate them, with no middle ground. And the typical group of D&D players tend to be like-minded, so people at the same table tend to have similar views on halflings. It probably divides along the same lines as "D&D is very serious" / "D&D is light-hearted fun".

 

[Hussar]

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who hates halflings. Utter and complete indifference would be closer to my experience. It’s not that people dislike halflings but like gnomes, nobody cares.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who hates halflings. Utter and complete indifference would be closer to my experience. It’s not that people dislike halflings but like gnomes, nobody cares.

Indifference might be your experience, everyone loves them is mine. Each table is a bubble, as the statistics prove.

But you really don't sound indifferent...

 

[Lanefan]

Indifference might be your experience, everyone loves them is mine. Each table is a bubble, as the statistics prove.

And even at a single table, IME these things tend to come and go in trends.

Hobbits didn't used to be all that popular in our games. Then there was about a 10-year run that saw Hobbits popping up left right and center. Now they've largely faded away again; meanwhile Part-Orcs - which were once as rare as hens' teeth - seem to be showing up in every party nowadays.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

And even at a single table, IME these things tend to come and go in trends.

Hobbits didn't used to be all that popular in our games. Then there was about a 10-year run that saw Hobbits popping up left right and center. Now they've largely faded away again; meanwhile Part-Orcs - which were once as rare as hens' teeth - seem to be showing up in every party nowadays.

Well, you are looking over a longer period than me, but currently at our table it looks like warforged are likely to overtake halflings as most popular race.

And yes, I guess thanks to Warcraft, orcs are cool.

 

[Hussar]

Indifference might be your experience, everyone loves them is mine. Each table is a bubble, as the statistics prove.

But you really don't sound indifferent...

I don't sound indifferent because I keep repeatedly getting attacked and mischaracterized. Over and over again. I MUST hate halflings. There is no other possible explanation. No one could EVER want to have new races in the PHB unless they HATE HALFLINGS. It's incredibly frustrating. The only reason I pick on halfllings is because they scrape the bottom of the barrel and always have (FOR RACES IN THE PHB, NOT INCLUDING OTHER RACES THAT DON'T APPEAR IN THE PHB).

So, yeah, after having people repeatedly tell me what I'm thinking, I do get a tiny bit shirty about it.

Even in the statistics being touted as "great for halfligns", halflings make up almost dead on 6% of all PHB Race (ONLY, NOT COUNTING OTHER SOURCE BOOKS) only characters. And they're only half a percent point above half orcs.

That's not exactly covered in glory. And, dovetails pretty nicely with the numbers we had before.

 

[billd91]

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't sound indifferent because I keep repeatedly getting attacked and mischaracterized. Over and over again. I MUST hate halflings.

You keep bringing them up. There are plenty of other races that are less popular than halflings, but it's always halflings you are objecting too. Generally, people who are "indifferent" to something do not keep going on about it.