Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9291360" data-attributes="member: 87792">And, oddly enough, neither of them are halflings. And it wasn't halflings that were unpopular enough sixteen years ago to be dropped from the 4e PHB. For that matter I'm pretty sure the bottom three have been fairly consistently in that order for decades.For that matter I wonder if other than tieflings and dragonborn entering and kicking dwarves out of the top five there has ever been much volatility or whether it has always been humans in first, elves and half elves next, then dwarves, then halflings, then half-orcs and finally the constantly-rewritten gnomes.Edit: and no one says halflings are the most popular. They do however have a strong niche and to justify kicking them for popularity you need to literally cut out a third of the races in the PHB. Which is why this looks like a quixotic crusade.Edit 2: Eberron doesn't rewrite halflings. House Ghallanda is about as halflingy as halflings get. It just has another group of halflings to have some variety. Dark Sun does rewrite halflings because Dark Sun is divergent and excludes divine magic and rewrites arcane. And vanilla halflings do not fit the themes of Dark Sun's being on the edge any more than Asimar would.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 9291360, member: 87792"] And, oddly enough, neither of them are halflings. And it wasn't halflings that were unpopular enough sixteen years ago to be dropped from the 4e PHB. For that matter I'm pretty sure the bottom three have been fairly consistently in that order for decades. For that matter I wonder if other than tieflings and dragonborn entering and kicking dwarves out of the top five there has ever been much volatility or whether it has always been humans in first, elves and half elves next, then dwarves, then halflings, then half-orcs and finally the constantly-rewritten gnomes. Edit: and no one says halflings are the most popular. They do however have a strong niche and to justify kicking them for popularity you need to literally cut out a third of the races in the PHB. Which is why this looks like a quixotic crusade. Edit 2: Eberron doesn't rewrite halflings. House Ghallanda is about as halflingy as halflings get. It just has another group of halflings to have some variety. Dark Sun does rewrite halflings because Dark Sun is divergent and excludes divine magic and rewrites arcane. And vanilla halflings do not fit the themes of Dark Sun's being on the edge any more than Asimar would. [/QUOTE]

Verification