Frankie1969
Adventurer
Unfortunately, the original thread for this topic got hopelessly derailed, so here's a fork. Rather than look at absolute numbers, I thought it might be more useful to compensate for relative popularity of races & classes, showing a better metric of which combinations are considered good or bad.
Mathematically, I took the raw numbers, then divided the values for each race by the square root of that race's mean and divided the values for each class by the square root of that class's mean. Between the two adjustments, you end up with numbers averaging about 1. Roughly, 0.5 = rarely chosen, 1.5 = not surprising, 2.5 = popular classic.
Note: DNDBeyond's free character builder doesn't include Drow Elf or Forest Gnome, so they are under-represented.
FWIW, I am very disappointed by the strong consensus against Half-Elf Barbarian, and intend to play one at the next opportunity. Lightfoot Warlock and a few other stat-appropriate combos also deserve much more love.
Thoughts?
Mathematically, I took the raw numbers, then divided the values for each race by the square root of that race's mean and divided the values for each class by the square root of that class's mean. Between the two adjustments, you end up with numbers averaging about 1. Roughly, 0.5 = rarely chosen, 1.5 = not surprising, 2.5 = popular classic.
Fighter | Barbarian | Paladin | Rogue | Ranger | Monk | Wizard | Cleric | Druid | Bard | Sorcerer | Warlock | |
Human | 3.24 | 1.18 | 1.90 | 1.87 | 1.43 | 1.71 | 2.03 | 1.91 | 0.98 | 1.28 | 1.18 | 1.43 |
Elf | 1.02 | 0.34 | 0.50 | 2.06 | 3.17 | 1.47 | 2.68 | 0.93 | 2.17 | 0.71 | 0.93 | 0.78 |
Half-Elf | 0.67 | 0.20 | 1.04 | 1.52 | 1.15 | 0.55 | 0.75 | 0.80 | 0.79 | 2.48 | 1.74 | 1.81 |
Dwarf | 2.17 | 1.77 | 1.29 | 0.43 | 0.56 | 0.58 | 0.51 | 2.92 | 0.78 | 0.57 | 0.38 | 0.39 |
Dragonborn | 1.56 | 1.26 | 2.42 | 0.42 | 0.52 | 0.71 | 0.48 | 0.73 | 0.53 | 0.57 | 1.62 | 0.85 |
Tiefling | 0.46 | 0.30 | 0.70 | 1.07 | 0.41 | 0.49 | 0.74 | 0.52 | 0.50 | 1.29 | 1.72 | 3.31 |
Genasi | 0.79 | 0.66 | 0.54 | 0.75 | 0.72 | 1.36 | 0.91 | 0.77 | 1.18 | 0.64 | 1.19 | 0.71 |
Halfling | 0.46 | 0.52 | 0.35 | 2.74 | 0.76 | 1.00 | 0.42 | 0.52 | 0.61 | 1.46 | 0.57 | 0.51 |
Half-Orc | 1.45 | 3.15 | 0.78 | 0.38 | 0.46 | 0.56 | 0.25 | 0.50 | 0.47 | 0.39 | 0.25 | 0.39 |
Gnome | 0.40 | 0.44 | 0.29 | 1.03 | 0.46 | 0.40 | 2.51 | 0.58 | 0.76 | 0.82 | 0.54 | 0.60 |
Goliath | 1.36 | 3.36 | 0.75 | 0.24 | 0.37 | 0.68 | 0.20 | 0.37 | 0.44 | 0.30 | 0.24 | 0.27 |
Aarakocra | 0.46 | 0.66 | 0.31 | 0.68 | 1.21 | 1.88 | 0.36 | 0.52 | 0.69 | 0.63 | 0.40 | 0.43 |
Aasimar | 0.41 | 0.31 | 1.87 | 0.28 | 0.27 | 0.41 | 0.28 | 1.20 | 0.34 | 0.68 | 0.83 | 0.93 |
Note: DNDBeyond's free character builder doesn't include Drow Elf or Forest Gnome, so they are under-represented.
FWIW, I am very disappointed by the strong consensus against Half-Elf Barbarian, and intend to play one at the next opportunity. Lightfoot Warlock and a few other stat-appropriate combos also deserve much more love.
Thoughts?
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