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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8153097" data-attributes="member: 2629">D&amp;D Beyond show the statistics for what people build and mess around with - not what they play at the table.&nbsp; Their recent ad campaigns on D&amp;D Beyond actually reference that they see a lot of people making a huge number of characters to test things out.&nbsp; Seriously.&nbsp; They talk about, &quot;oh, what would it be like if I gave my paladin a horse&quot;.&nbsp; While some builds are currently not going to be used for a campaign, they really have no way to tell when someone is just advancing their backup character to make sure it is ready to drop in a game, or when it is an active PC being updated. They're identical in how they change.&nbsp; There are now 44 playable humanoid types, and when you include subtypes it rockets well above 100 options. We'll continue to see tweaks to the uses as more are introduced and rolls that fill one 'build type' find more competition. Any changes we see are likely more a result of new competition rather than changes in appreciation of the existing options.However, I imagine that after Tasha's is more widely used we'll see a big push towards mountain dwarves by min/maxers. Two +2 ability score bonuses? And a bunch of weapon and armor proficiencies you can trade for other stuff? I'm betting we'll see a decent number of mountain dwarf monks, for example. If you use point buy, this is the easiest way to get to +18 in dex and wisdom at level 4. I'll be surprised if dwarves do not show up higher in the metrics by the end of 2021.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 8153097, member: 2629"] D&D Beyond show the statistics for what people build and mess around with - not what they play at the table. Their recent ad campaigns on D&D Beyond actually reference that they see a lot of people making a huge number of characters to test things out. Seriously. They talk about, "oh, what would it be like if I gave my paladin a horse". While some builds are currently not going to be used for a campaign, they really have no way to tell when someone is just advancing their backup character to make sure it is ready to drop in a game, or when it is an active PC being updated. They're identical in how they change. There are now 44 playable humanoid types, and when you include subtypes it rockets well above 100 options. We'll continue to see tweaks to the uses as more are introduced and rolls that fill one 'build type' find more competition. Any changes we see are likely more a result of new competition rather than changes in appreciation of the existing options. However, I imagine that after Tasha's is more widely used we'll see a big push towards mountain dwarves by min/maxers. Two +2 ability score bonuses? And a bunch of weapon and armor proficiencies you can trade for other stuff? I'm betting we'll see a decent number of mountain dwarf monks, for example. If you use point buy, this is the easiest way to get to +18 in dex and wisdom at level 4. I'll be surprised if dwarves do not show up higher in the metrics by the end of 2021. [/QUOTE]

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