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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 7671857" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p>I noticed the last survey they didn't have answers that fit how I would have liked to respond. The small races doesn't surprise me. My players don't play small races because they can't imagine themselves as a small race. I am the only one in my group that enjoys playing gnomes. No one else will play a gnome, even as a wizard. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority if responses against small races has less to do with their power and more to do with not wanting to play a small race for aesthetic reasons. The small races have never been played much in any of my games, regardless of how powerful they are. Deep gnomes were extremely powerful in 3E. I was the only player to ever play one in the entire 3E run. I don't think small races will ever be very attractive to D&D players. Very few people visualize themselves as a gnome or Halfling. Part of investing in the character is imagining yourself as the character or in the case of playing female characters being with the character. Small races fulfill neither fantasy.</p></blockquote><p></p>