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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8698476" data-attributes="member: 29398">Welp, [USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER] , that'll teach me to post from memory before checking my numbers.Ran the numbers on our games' overall breakdown by species played.  Turns out Humans are/were way more dominant than I remembered, then Elf, then Dwarf, then everyone else.  Results (first number is actual, second is % of total, sorry for the lousy formatting)572 --- 43.20 --- Human199 --- 15.03 --- Elf129 --- 9.74 --- Dwarf96 --- 7.25 --- PartElf81 --- 6.12 --- Hobbit61 --- 4.61 --- Gnome56 --- 4.23 --- PartOrc39 --- 2.95 --- Barbarian (tough magic-hating subspecies of Human)91 --- 6.87 --- Other (grab-bag of all sorts of oddities: genetic disasters e.g. Part-Ogre; characters who permanently changed species e.g. via reincarnation; one-off wonders through lucky die rolls in char-gen e.g. Dryad, Centaur, etc.)1324 --- 100.00 --- TotalTime period covered: 1981-present day.There's been some quite discernable and interesting trends over the years.  Elves was very popular early, then few were seen for a long time, and lately they've made a comeback.  PartOrcs were nearly unheard of until recently but over the last ten years they've taken off.  Hobbits had a real run in the 1990s for some reason.  Humans have been dominant throughout.One real statistical oddity concerning Hobbits in my current campaign: there have been three characters able to continue their adventuring careers after reincarnation and somewhat incredibly all three of them changed from another species to Hobbit in the process; the odds of rolling Hobbit on that table are only about 6%. (these count as "Other" above)  As two of those three are now long-timers, it makes the Hobbit presence seem more significant in play than the raw numbers above would suggest.And that raises another perception-clouder: some species tend on average to last longer in play than others, and that varies greatly by campaign/game.  For these I only have easily-compiled data for my own three major campaigns (which combined represent about half the total above) in terms of sessions-played per character: in the first, PartElf averaged the longest but there wasn't much variance between all eight listed above; in the second Gnomes absolutely crushed everyone else with an average career length nearly double that of any other species; and in the third (i.e. current) it's Hobbits nearly doubling the next-closest.</blockquote>

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