D&D General Friday Fun: What Are Your Top 3 Playable Species

[Corinnguard]

There is a Harpy heritage in the Manual of Adventurous Resources: Complete for Level Up.

Not only is there a Harpy heritage for Level Up, but you can reskin this heritage to create new heritages for the Avens in M:TG, Ravenfolk, Strix (Owlfolk or Owlin), Valkyries and Winged Elves.

Winged Elves, for instance, are elves whose line intermingled with air elementals.
Heritage: elf. In lieu of a gift, you get the traits of the harpy base heritage except for the Age, Size, and Claws traits.

 

[Tonguez]

Over 10% is the core 4, plus half-elf, Tiefling, and warforged. That’s a solid PHB.

Yeah its a fairly conservative list with Humans, Elfs and Dwarves absolutely dominating, with a bit of mild flavour via Elf lite (Half-Elf, Tiefling) notably they're visually appealing species with pleasingly human aesthetics.

Warforged gives a bit of mechanical artifice and seem to have edge out the older 'big guys' (dragonborn and significantly Half-Orcs). Good to see the gnomes still hanging in there, topping the low midtier alongside Aasimar and Changeling.

It seems that what people dont want is the more niche end of things, with mechanically weird novelty species dropping way behind in favour of familiar fantasy staples, even the dragonborn are less popular than gnomes and gobbos.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Human (no 1 choice),
Tiefling (I just absolutely love this as a concept),
Orc (Warcraft)

Probably Dwarf as a 4th.