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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8863229" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><s>Joke's on you, I'm a dragonborn IRL!</s>More seriously, I mostly targeted humans because of that very thing. Well, not so much "loyalty to the species" as....human is by definition the most relatable option on the list, because everyone voting is human (or a bot, but that doesn't really count.) Humans always win "what race is best?" polls, usually by a substantial margin. They're popular AND basic/bland, making them the top threat for anyone who might want to see some other option take the crown.I guess what I'm saying is, human is the favorite of something like 40% of the playerbase. But that means something like 60% has some other favorite...and most of us know that if human is allowed to linger, it will essentially guaranteed become the consensus option. And because all the options in the poll have so few points, just 3 people over the course of two days (or a few hours, if two of them vote just before and then just after midnight) can kill any given option. Finally, there's always been a temptation to hold onto a vote so you can kill an option that's dangling at the edge of survival--I know a number of posters take some degree of pride in getting the "kill shot" as it were.Between those three elements, it's little wonder the two PHB human options got blasted away immediately. But, if you've noticed, the Dragonmark ones have lingered a lot longer! I suspect that's because they aren't perceived as a threat anymore, and people have turned to taking on the front-runners that have appeared in the time since (or killing off ones they hate.)</blockquote>

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