Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
The Fall Of The Dwarves: What Races Do People Actually Play?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8150989" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>What races are people actually playing, and how much of it is Tolkien fantasy as against other stuff?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]130207[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Fortunately D&D Beyond provides a better source of data than we've ever had. The most recent data from less than a week ago in <a href="https://www.geeknative.com/103964/the-most-popular-dd-races-in-dd-beyond-in-2020/" target="_blank">December 2020</a> alas does not provide percentages.</p><p></p><p>In February 2019, using stats <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-beyond-updated-character-popularity.656950/" target="_blank">found via this very site</a>:</p><p></p><p>Which is a bit of a change from <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-your-dd-character-rare/" target="_blank">what people were creating in launch month for D&D Beyond (mid 2017)</a></p><p></p><p>The percentages are presented in different ways in 2019 and the launch month, with launch month merging the various subraces. So to compare like with like:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wood elves and high elves taken together in the 2019 data are more popular than half-elves (or variant humans)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Meanwhile if we split the wood elves and high elves from 2017 they are probably both behind tieflings and dragonborn</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dwarves taken together in 2019 are only just behind dragonborn. They've still fallen from ahead of tieflings and dragonborn to behind them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Halflings combined in 2019 are neck and neck with half-orcs and ahead of goliaths</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Genasi combined in 2019 are a little behind goliaths and slightly ahead of combined gnomes</li> </ul><p>Interesting that dwarves have fallen so heavily out of favour - and half orcs have climbed so strongly into favour; I guess there's been a lot of talk here. The thematics of tieflings and dragonborn (entirely unsurprisingly IMO) have made them core races and even the dwarfs are disappearing in favour of half-orcs (which IMO is a surprise).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8150989, member: 87792"] What races are people actually playing, and how much of it is Tolkien fantasy as against other stuff? [ATTACH type="full" alt="AF4847B0-224A-4E69-B2BA-7ABE6393B9A6.jpeg"]130207[/ATTACH] Fortunately D&D Beyond provides a better source of data than we've ever had. The most recent data from less than a week ago in [URL='https://www.geeknative.com/103964/the-most-popular-dd-races-in-dd-beyond-in-2020/']December 2020[/URL] alas does not provide percentages. In February 2019, using stats [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-beyond-updated-character-popularity.656950/']found via this very site[/URL]: Which is a bit of a change from [URL='https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-your-dd-character-rare/']what people were creating in launch month for D&D Beyond (mid 2017)[/URL] The percentages are presented in different ways in 2019 and the launch month, with launch month merging the various subraces. So to compare like with like: [LIST] [*]Wood elves and high elves taken together in the 2019 data are more popular than half-elves (or variant humans) [*]Meanwhile if we split the wood elves and high elves from 2017 they are probably both behind tieflings and dragonborn [*]Dwarves taken together in 2019 are only just behind dragonborn. They've still fallen from ahead of tieflings and dragonborn to behind them [*]Halflings combined in 2019 are neck and neck with half-orcs and ahead of goliaths [*]Genasi combined in 2019 are a little behind goliaths and slightly ahead of combined gnomes [/LIST] Interesting that dwarves have fallen so heavily out of favour - and half orcs have climbed so strongly into favour; I guess there's been a lot of talk here. The thematics of tieflings and dragonborn (entirely unsurprisingly IMO) have made them core races and even the dwarfs are disappearing in favour of half-orcs (which IMO is a surprise). [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
The Fall Of The Dwarves: What Races Do People Actually Play?
Top