What races are people actually playing, and how much of it is Tolkien fantasy as against other stuff?
Fortunately D&D Beyond provides a better source of data than we've ever had. The most recent data from less than a week ago in December 2020 alas does not provide percentages.
Fortunately D&D Beyond provides a better source of data than we've ever had. The most recent data from less than a week ago in December 2020 alas does not provide percentages.
In February 2019, using stats found via this very site:
Which is a bit of a change from what people were creating in launch month for D&D Beyond (mid 2017)
The percentages are presented in different ways in 2019 and the launch month, with launch month merging the various subraces. So to compare like with like:
- Wood elves and high elves taken together in the 2019 data are more popular than half-elves (or variant humans)
- Meanwhile if we split the wood elves and high elves from 2017 they are probably both behind tieflings and dragonborn
- Dwarves taken together in 2019 are only just behind dragonborn. They've still fallen from ahead of tieflings and dragonborn to behind them
- Halflings combined in 2019 are neck and neck with half-orcs and ahead of goliaths
- Genasi combined in 2019 are a little behind goliaths and slightly ahead of combined gnomes
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