Popular races in your games

[Elder-Basilisk]

And Priggle's feat causes him to, yet again, be overlooked. Such is the life of a gnome. You'll probably forget he ever existed when he dies.

(Or maybe you're just talking unambiguous PCs here).

Yes, usually impaled on the end of a greataxe.

No one ever plays elves in my game, lord knows why. Never had a gnome or a half-orc, either.

 

[MacMathan]

Let's see in the campaigns I am currently involved in there have been;

15- humans
3- elves
2- half-orcs
2- dwarf
1- planetouched (axani)

1-Half-Ogre (npc usu.)
1- kobold (npc usu.)

No Gnomes, Halflings or Half-Elves yet.

 

[Wombat]

Currently...

6 humans
3 faen
1 litorian

Previous campaign (total of all characters)

15 human
2 half-sidhe
1 half-dwarf
1 indeterminate fey (created on the fly as an agreement between player and GM)

Before that...?

Ancient history -- few records

 

[snarfoogle]

Well, in my current campaign...
Dwarf - 2
Human - 1
Half-Elf - 1

I guess we need another player or two.

 

[Li Shenron]

I hate elves (*), but everyone else always seems to love 'em!

About this I have noticed - among the people I have actually played with - that old D&Ders tend to either LOVE or HATE elves. Don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that in older editions elves were basically the best around (at least in the OD&D I played), and as such you could love them or hate them, but more difficult to be mild with them
Otherwise, those players whose first D&D was 3ed don't seem to be so strongly biased in favor or disfavor...

 

[Dr Simon]

About this I have noticed - among the people I have actually played with - that old D&Ders tend to either LOVE or HATE elves. Don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that in older editions elves were basically the best around (at least in the OD&D I played), and as such you could love them or hate them, but more difficult to be mild with them

I don't know - they never seemed that over-powered (except that as DM you couldn't do the old rail-roady thing of capturing a low level party by hammering them with Sleep spells....).

Perhaps my antipathy stems from playing Warhammer FRP, where elves get such high Initiative compared to anyone else they tend to finish off battles by themselves before any other PCs have even started!

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Our games:

Primarily humans, followed by dwarves. Then elves and half elves. After that, it's the "freaky" races: half dragons, tieflings, drow.

 

[Herpes Cineplex]

Does that match with other peoples experience over a variety of D&D games? Are about half of the PCs human? Or do the players you know consistently pick a different mix.

I think we worked it out once for our 3rd edition games, and elves and humans were roughly equal. We also had couple of half-elves, and a couple of planetouched (two genasi and an aasimar). We had one halfling, but really only because I was dared to play one.

No one ever played a dwarf, and no one ever even considered a gnome. In fact, we never even saw a gnome NPC, even outside the game setting where all the gnomes were dead (Scarred Lands on Ghelspad).

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thereby reinforcing the gnome's position as least-liked race in all of d&d
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