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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9020994" data-attributes="member: 29398">Counting everything rolled up and run by a player (thus ignoring adventuring NPCs etc.), over my 39 years of DMing here's what's appeared as PCs in my three big campaigns.  This includes everything: one-hit wonders, ten-year hall-of-famers, all of 'em - if they were in one session or 300, they count.177 - Human94 - Elf49 - Dwarf33 - Part Elf24 - Hobbit24 - Part Orc18 - Gnome10 - mixed (strange genetic combinations of various species including but not limited to those listed above)5 - other (completely a species not listed above e.g. Drow, Leprechaun, Centaur)3 - two (characters who permanently changed species during their career, usually due to reincarnation, and were played in each form)One reason for the low number of Gnomes might be their resilience: for some reason their overall death-per-session-played rate is about half that of anyone else, reducing their turnover.  Hobbits are also quite resilient.</blockquote>