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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malien" data-source="post: 1718284" data-attributes="member: 11244">While these numbers are a bit... uhh... out there, I think there's probably a decent reason for it. I mean, personally, I can count on my hand the number of characters in 2nd ed AD&D (when I started playing) that weren't human or elven. And, since 3rd came out, I'm all about the humans. (And, occasionally, a tiefling. Just to get my Planescape groove on.)I've never played a gnome. Or a halfing. For that matter, I've done a few half-elves, no half-orcs, a drow or three, and this one time, a silver dragon. (Go Council of Wyrms.) My gaming group all follows a similar trend. Why? Well, not to speak for the whole world, but I think there are just more people interested in some races than others. Obviously, this is the deal with Elves. So, naturally, you make more books about the topics people like. Even though there are people that like other races, you want to give the most people you can what they want, and make the cash. But, really, aside from a bunch of fluff, I don't see how much crunch a single race /needs/, beyond like one entire book devoted to them. Unless they're a whole new spin designed for a campaign setting. Tired of elves? Nah. Tired of unnecessary crunch? Maybe.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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