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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8410464" data-attributes="member: 6704184">LOL sure. Definitely the person you disagree with that has the bias, not you.Wotc doesn't know how many DDB players there are. You'd need to go to fandom for that information, the company that owns DDB. We have two separate sources of information telling us what is common and what is uncommon amongst dnd players, and both have much more information available to them than you or I do.If feels like? I'm not sure what to do with that, honestly. You seem to have a strong desire to discount data that disagrees with your perception, even though both of the two companies with access to large amounts of player data agree on the results.Sure it does. If you have a group of a few hundred thousand, and take thousands with a slight different circumstance to see the effect of that circumstance on the larger group, you have useful data about what the larger group would look like if they all had the same circumstance as the sample group. You seem to want to argue against some idea of this data being definitive and beyond doubt, but that isn't what anyone is saying. It's indicative and useful, which is all survey data can ever be without the sample size being equal to the whole, which never happens.A few percentage points wouldn't change the rankings of most popular subclasses. It certainly wouldn't change which is at the top, which is at the top by a decent margin. It absolutely wouldn't erase the fact that Wizards, which is a wholly separate company, agrees that the data supports the fact that Champion Fighters are very much the most popular class, standard human is the most popular race option, and the simplest and most classic forms of each class are the most played forms of each class.And yet, we also have the earlier DnD Beyond (which again, is separate from Wizards of The Coast) data which also put Dragonborn in roughly the same place, so we can easily and safely conclude that Dragonborn are in the top ten of popularity, but that nothing challenges the standard human for popularity except perhaps variant human. Since wotc has also said repeatedly and with complete confidence that standard human is the most played race option by a significant margin, and we can observe from their behavior and the art they use that Dragonborn are quite popular in spite of being disappointing mechanically, and online discussion in places not known for being home to a lot of optimization talk seems to run in the same direction, it really seems like personal bias is the only reason to doubt that data.</blockquote>

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