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The more data we get, the more we are seeing that new/casual players prefer D&D Beyond because they would rather create a character in five minutes versus an hour. In other words, it is introducing D&D to a whole new group of people at a rapid pace. "Hardcore players" (quoted because what does...

Incorrect, at least with the "reasonable" filtering we do to determine whether a character is"active" (have they adjusted hit points, taken rests, leveled up on different dates than when they were created, etc.) With 23M+ characters in the dataset, and the surprise these kinds of things seem to...

Great idea... I'll get right on it.

I'm assuming you're calling me the "alien" in this response? A bit insulting, but that never really deters me so I'll bite: The dataset isn't spurious - I have explained here and many times elsewhere that we scrub it for active players (to the best of our reasonable ability to do so), and no...

I have actually personally answered those questions about this data many times on the development update streams from which this data was plucked. 😊 When it ends up reposted on great news sites like this I have less control over the explanation of the parameters. Hence my efforts in this thread...

I understand your point, but your point is still based on assumptions and personal anecdotal evidence. You say "profitable group," but there is no way that you actually know that it is such. You say "most of the players who use DDB are probably newer," but you have no way of actually knowing...

You're actually missing my real point - the amount of the player base that uses those variants that are available in the DMG is incredibly small. Since we have hundreds of things on our roadmap, those variant rules used by such a small percentage of players do not take priority over other...

We have previously shared that there is no foolproof way to guarantee that any of these characters are being actively played, but take reasonable steps to filter the data the best that we can. For instance, we look at characters that have leveled up on different days and have adjusted hit points...

That is all data that we have readily available but have not shared. The intent of sharing high-level summary data in our development updates is just that - to provide a 30,000 foot view. We don't have the time or resources, or even a real reason that would benefit the community more than us...

Saying DDB "only supports the base rules as written" is not an accurate statement. The biggest gap at the moment is the gigantic UA content drop for variant class features that was recently released. We will be shoring up that gap in January. Furthermore, this entire line of thinking makes...

Not specifically picking out your post, but a 30 million character sample size is pretty significant, considering there are roughly 40 million D&D players globally at this point. It would be far more representative, for example, than a survey with less than a few thousand responses. The very...

It will be published by Fandom Tabletop, and I assure you there is plenty of Cortex to look forward to in 2020.

No worries - I appreciate passion.

This is my point that no one here (except me) knows the actual dataset and many assumptions are being made. Multiclassing and homebrew subclasses are going to throw off any napkin math you all can do. If we entirely removed multiclass characters, for instance, does this actually still give us...

This data is presented as a high-level look at distribution of race, class, and subclass selection for active characters on D&D Beyond. It serves that purpose just fine. It could certainly "confuse" or "amuse" those who want to read too much into it or think it is trying to achieve a different...

The chart adds up to 100% (of course all circle charts do) - there just isn't labeling for the remaining percentages because there was no room for them to exist and still be legible.

Again, very assertive for someone that does not have the complete picture of the data. For instance, I have not mentioned anything about multiclassing, which impacts this greatly. Taking the barbarian class for a couple of levels is actually very popular for multiclass characters, and those...

Yes...it is? I guess this will be my last attempt to explain, this time with a question - do you see any single other cleric domain in the list on that chart? No being the answer, the reason is such a high percentage of clerics choose Life Domain that the total of that subset is higher than...

I'm not going to have time to deep dive an explanation on this, but you're not thinking of the data sets how they should be considered. Taking an incredibly simple example, let's go with the entire population is 100 and it is composed of only Fighters and Clerics. There are 70 fighters and 30...

No, but it is possible to have a higher percentage in a separate data sample that removes characters that have not reached a level appropriate to choose a subclass, which is what has happened here. This data is intended to provide a broad view into relative popularity between all other...