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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9015902" data-attributes="member: 22779">Fair enough.  I DID try to take a different tack and looked at the data in a different way - which actually makes a fairly solid argument for how good halflings are- the fact that they aren't just one trick pony races, pigeonholed into a single class or single group of classes.  Half orcs suffer the same fate as goliaths - fighters/barbarians make up about 60% of all the characters.  And, while it's fairly evenly spread among the remainder, it does make half-orcs something of a one trick race.Look, I totally get that I'm not going to get what I want.  Fair enough.  The hold of Tolkien and tradition is just far too strong.  I just think it's a shame because the one time we actually managed to get races that aren't Tolkien races- both of them proved to be really, really popular.  I've been banging this drum since 3e came out to be honest.  Not necessarily haltings.  I don't actually care that much if halflings get cut or not.  I think they're a waste of space, but, whatever.  What I actually want is more variety of races in the PHB because whatever races are in the PHB are the ones that we're going to see in supplements and in modules.  How many Aarocockra NPC's have you seen in a WotC module?  There's a couple, I'm sure, but, not a heck of a lot.  Same with Genasi or Tabaxi or anything else that isn't in the PHB.  How many Plasmoid NPC's would you guess  appear in the Keys from the Golden Vault?  Are we likely to see a Hadozee or a Tabaxi or a Gensai in the new Phandelver book?At least since Tieflings made it into the PHB, we got TIefling NPC's.  But if it's not in the PHB, it might as well not exist for the most part.</blockquote>

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