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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8617155" data-attributes="member: 18">I think Dragonborn hit multiple archetypes not otherwise present in the PHB, which is probably why they're so popular:1) Big strong guy.They're by far the tallest and bulkiest race in the PHB and have a STR bonus. A lot of people who would never play Mountain Dwarf will play them.2) Honorable warrior race guy.They're the closest you're going to get to Klingons, Neitzscheans, Luxans, and so on in the PHB (and one of the closest in D&D generally), and people just love that vibe.3) Animal-person or Dragon-person.A strangely underserved niche in D&D, though there are quite a lot of bird-persons, and I guess there's the Tabaxi (the lack of dog/wolf people in a 5E book remains bizarre, I guess loads of 3PPs have done it to death though). Anyway if you don't want to be a human-looking-type they're your only PHB option.On top of that, yeah, they're badass dragons who breath fire and stuff.I don't actually agree re: weird, in MMORPGs it doesn't work quite like you say. Humans and Elves are usually the most popular races. But right after them, usually next is not "whatever else is pretty", it's often a big animal-man or the like. WoW shows this (figures from 2019 but no new races have been added since):[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.statista.com/statistics/276315/distribution-of-world-of-warcraft-characters-by-race/[/URL]Humans and Elves way at the top, but immediately after them on Alliance we have Draenei (big, strong demon-people) and Worgen (Werewolf-people). On Horde, Elves again are at the top, but then it's Orcs (the handsomer, now-standing-up-straight Orcs of WoW) and Tauren (Minotaur-people) - both slightly higher than they look because of Highmountain Tauren and Mag'har Orcs lower down the list (which are essentially slight appearance-changes of the same races).FFXIV used to follow this pattern but over the years cat-people and dragon-people became the most popular races with humans a distant third. But in that game both the cat and dragon people are extremely human-looking, with human faces for example. Whereas FFXIV elves are kind of terrible-looking. Evidently if you're not a sexy elf you don't count for elf-ing purposes.</blockquote>

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