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Evidence needed.

Why is it necessary for D&D to seize upon one possibility and foreclose others? Why is rigidity desired? We already have Dwarves which are northern european to the extent they are out of place in settings not based on northern Europe. Why is it desirable to do so again?

Okay then. Don't do that then? Find a niche that could be filled by humans and fill it with halflings.

Why do Dwarves need to be more non-human? What would be the advantage of that in practical terms? The more non-human you make the player races the harder you make it for people to play them.

It should be obvious that the humans are the problem. They're all over the place, filling all kind of niches, and don't have any clear thematic unity to them. They don't even get a cool flavourful racial ability that makes them really stand out. Humans clearly need to go.

I remain puzzled less by people's reaction to halflings then I am by the idea that there's something singular about halflings. Like the idea expressed earlier about knowing what to do with all the other races except halflings. To me one of the biggest issues is that just about all the races are...

That's weird. So real world entymology exists in fantasy worlds too? Surely if you're being consistent then the Dwarf name for themselves would be in old norse and be something like Dvergar? Why not do the same for halflings then? Make up some fantasy entymology for how the first two...

You know...I have never had "Dwarf" as the name that the Dwarves use among themselves either. For obvious reasons.

Ehh I think "Squashed Human" would be more accurate.

Some people always will. However for a long time the online version of games have been pdfs. And PDFs are a terrible way to organise game material. It's possible to do a lot better.

Really the hardback model is redundant in this day and age. There are some things where having a book form makes sense, such as setting material, but for player's rules. There much better in some kind of linked format. Eg, see this homebrew Star Wars hack for 5e.

Sounds like they're getting what D&D's about then.

So Bob, what's the hook for your characcter? He's a halfling ranger, battle scarred and grizzled with a thousand yard stare. His favoured enemy is gnolls. He's the last of his people, perhaps the very last halfling in the whole world and he has one mission left in life, revenge against the...

Slings are plenty deadly in 5e. A PC that has managed to narrowly dodge and avoid the worst blows of a Greatsword repeatedly can suddenly be taken out with a single hit from a sling. Or in other words, making conclusions about the physics of a D&D world on the basis of its combat system is...

I think all but 1 of those Warhammer Dwarves is as ridiculous as the 4e ones. (The one of the Dwarf in renaissance clothing is not exactly great, but not ridiciulous.

It has nothing to do with anything. It's throwing things at the wall in the hope that something will stick.

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Hey. Bungo. You need to take the sheep out again today. But Dad it's so boring all they do is sit around and eat grass. Well practice your slinging then. It will come in handy if any wolves come stalking, plus if you hit a pheasant we can cook it for dinner. Ok Dad

Laminate bows don't do well in humid environments, which is why they never really caught on Europe.

If there is a distortion in the data it's more likely, I think, to be that the DnDBeyond users represent a more hardcore fanbase than the average user. They are after all willing to pay money for something that can very easily be done with pencil and paper. This would possibly tend to bias the...