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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8700441" data-attributes="member: 6915329">D&amp;D Beyond has a homebrew section for races. Each page has 20 races, and there are 2,530 pages. There are literally over 50,000 different race options available to people who use that site, not including all the many, many hundreds of races from 3pp books and various websites that haven't been uploaded to it.Halflings are, going by the numbers on D&amp;D Beyond from 2019, are the 7th most popular race out of over 50,000 races. Humans (22.8%)Elves (11.2%) (Edit: high and wood only; drow didn't make it on this chart)Half-Elves (9.1%)Tieflings (7.5%)Dragonborn (7.2%)Dwarfs (6.6%)Halflings and Half-Orcs (tied for 4.7%)Goliaths (3.9%)Genasi (water, air, and fire only, 3.4%; earth genasi didn't make it on this chart)Gnomes (rock and deep only, 3.1%; forest gnomes didn't make it on this chart)Aarakocra (2.8%)Changelings (1.4%)Tabaxi (1.2%)How on earth do you think that being the 7th most popular race is &quot;bottom of the barrel&quot;? They're not even the least popular race using only the PHB!What can you use to support your claim? Well, since you can't use number of people who play them and you can't use lack of support, maybe you need to reevaluate your claim here and stop saying that it's a fact that they've been unpopular from the start.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8700441, member: 6915329"] D&D Beyond has a homebrew section for races. Each page has 20 races, and there are 2,530 pages. There are literally over [B]50,000 [/B]different race options available to people who use that site, not including all the many, many [I]hundreds[/I] of races from 3pp books and various websites that haven't been uploaded to it. Halflings are, going by the numbers on D&D Beyond from 2019, are the [I][B]7th most popular race out of over 50,000 races[/B]. [/I] Humans (22.8%) Elves (11.2%) (Edit: high and wood only; drow didn't make it on this chart) Half-Elves (9.1%) Tieflings (7.5%) Dragonborn (7.2%) Dwarfs (6.6%) Halflings and Half-Orcs (tied for 4.7%) Goliaths (3.9%) Genasi (water, air, and fire only, 3.4%; earth genasi didn't make it on this chart) Gnomes (rock and deep only, 3.1%; forest gnomes didn't make it on this chart) Aarakocra (2.8%) Changelings (1.4%) Tabaxi (1.2%) How on [I]earth [/I]do you think that being the 7th most popular race is "bottom of the barrel"? They're not even the least popular race using only the PHB! What can you use to support your claim? Well, since you can't use number of people who play them and you can't use lack of support, maybe you need to reevaluate your claim here and stop saying that it's a [I]fact [/I]that they've been unpopular from the start. [/QUOTE]

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