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

[Zardnaar]

I'm not sure this follows from the evidence in the poll. The poll is designed to skew conservative ("top 3 playable species"), and within that, only three species cross the 25%-of-those-sampled threshold.

It would be nice to disambiguate those who chose half-elf; was that conceptually separate from elf, or do people choose one or the other (which I suspect happens with orc and half-orc)?

So yes, there are clear leaders, but the long tail shows there is an appetite for less mainstream species. I am surprised at how well Tiefling does in the poll, esp. since (IMO) they were implemented so poorly in 5e (and worse in 2024). But again, are people choosing aasimar and Tiefling, or choosing between them? It may be that "planetouched" (or whatever) would hit 25%.

How are Tieflings worse in 2024 vs 14?

They had bad stat combo in 2014 phb.

 

[Tigris]

How are Tieflings worse in 2024 vs 14?

They had bad stat combo in 2014 phb.

Since Tashas you can pick stat combo freely, so that is hardly an issue.

 

[Zardnaar]

Since Tashas you can pick stat combo freely, so that is hardly an issue.

Assuming DM allows it and/or the groups actually using it. Cant be guaranteed.

Mordenkainens had great tieflings as well.

 

[Kannik]

I have played an inordinate amount of dwarves over the years, so I had to mark that one. Also quite a few humans, though likely they're much closer in number to the mix of other types. One that wasn't in the poll are Centaurs or other 'taurs -- for whatever reason I've always loved that morphology.

(And therefore 'had to' write/distribute supplements for them for 4 different editions of D&D )

 

[payn]

Just realized, ive never played a dwarf.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't follow.

Putting the results you want at the top of the list is an old survey manipulation trick, but I doubt it had much effect in this case.

 

[Reynard]

Putting the results you want at the top of the list is an old survey manipulation trick, but I doubt it had much effect in this case.

Oh jeez

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Oh jeez

No one is suggesting you are aware, and since it relies on respondents being too lazy to read all the way to the bottom before responding it doesn’t really matter here.

I only know because survey design was something I taught as part of GCSE Maths. A good survey should be alphabetical, or better still completely random.

 

[Zardnaar]

No one is suggesting you are aware, and since it relies on respondents being to lazy to read all the way to the bottom before responding it doesn’t really matter here.

I only know because survey design was something I taught as part of GCSE Maths. A good survey should be alphabetical, or better still completely random.

Interesting. Surveys/polls are wrong is usually i didnt get result I wanted.

Unless the company responsible is completely out to lunch

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Interesting. Surveys/polls are wrong is usually i didnt get resukt i wanted.

Unless the company responsible is completely out to lunch

There is a whole bunch of other stuff on surveys in the GCSE Maths syllabus, but it’s not really my field, I only did one term statistics as part of my degree, so I just taught it from the book.