Over the last week I did a lot of reading though character descriptions in the ISRP chat rooms. In fact, I read just over 100 descriptions, this is what I found:
Male Characters: 52%
Female Character: 46%
Neuter Characters: 2%
46% of female characters go into great detail about how beautiful they are.
43% of those beautiful characters also go on to describe their cleavage.
(Overall, 20% of female character descriptions describe the character's cleavage.)
Note: Stating that a character had a "curvy body" did not count as describing cleavage. Only talking abut the character's "curves" did.
8% of male characters go into great detail about how beautiful/handsome they are.
8% of male characters are built like the HULK.
1 male character made a remark about his impressive "unit."
(Overall, 1% of male character descriptions describe the character's "unit.")
Note: Races that are naturally strong such as Minotaurs did not get included in the "Hulk" category. . . Athletic characters also did not get included. Only characters with ridiculously huge muscles were included.
7% of descriptions use the word "shadowy" to describe the character.
52% of descriptions have unrelated material in them.
Note: Unrelated material includes: character history, character goals, directly stating D&D character classes, describing secret spells/curses cast on a character, identifying the creator of an item, stating that an item has sentimental value, stating an item's name, describing specific information about an item's special power, anything else that you wouldn't know just by simply looking at a character. I allowed characters to state if they were family to another character due to the fact that both characters might look similar enough for people to recognize they are from the same family.
16% of descriptions are larger than the chat window. (on a screen resolution of 1024 x 768)
75% of those large descriptions contain unrelated material.
13% of Characters are templated.
23% of Those templated characters have more then one template.
Templates in order of popularity:
- Vampire - 62%
- Half-Dragon - 23%
- Were-Tiger - 15%
- Lich - 8%
- Other Undead - 7%
[/list=1]Added Statistics:
25% of Vampires are Drow, the rest is an equal mix of Humans and other Elves (37.5% each)
~ Races in the ISRP ~
Elf: 31%- Drow - 17%
- Regular Elf* - 9%
- Avariel Elf - 2%
- Sun Elf - 2%
- Wood Elf - 1%
[/list=1]Humans: 25%
Undistinguished†: 19%
Outsiders: 7%- Demon - 2%
- Angel - 2%
- Spirit - 2%
- Succubus - 1%
[/list=1]Fey: 4%- Nymph - 1%
- Dryad - 1%
- Fairy - 1%
- Half-Fey - 1%
[/list=1]Half-Dragon: 3%
Half-Elf: 2%
Construct: 2%- Metal - 1%
- Flesh - 1%
[/list=1]Dwarf: 1%
Gnoll: 1%
Minotaur: 1%
Centaur: 1%
Doppelganger: 1%
Sirine: 1%
Cat Person‡: 1%
* Regular Elf, also known as a Moon Elf in the Forgotten Realms.
† Undistinguished characters are characters that do not have a race in their description, nor any clues as to what race they may be. (ie: pointy ears) Many of them are probably human, but a few had features that would suggest otherwise.
‡ Cat Person, such as a type of beastman. Not to be confused with a were-tiger. (which is a template)
All statistics should be roughly accurate. This survey included over 100 people, and was done during random points of the day ranging from very early, to very late.
I hope you found this interesting. Comments are definitely welcome. I'm very interested to see what you all have to say.
Thanks!
Eidrog
