D&D 5E What are your (up to 3) favorite character races? - Wizards Survey Duplication

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Warforged are golems. They seem fine in many of these settings.

What is the difficulty?

They're not really golems. They're more like automaton warriors. Golems are different, closer to elementals (being animated by elemental spirits), and are more diverse.

 

[Yaarel]

They're not really golems. They're more like automaton warriors. Golems are different, closer to elementals (being animated by elemental spirits), and are more diverse.

In my campaigns, a player has the option to describe their nature, such as a mechanical automaton come to life.

However, in the Eberron concept, a warforged is a wood golem, a wood statue come to life, who wears metal armor.

If feels as appropriate as spells like Ensnare, Awaken, Plant Growth, and other ways of animating plants.

 

[Ancalagon]

Fair, but Fairy especially I would think someone would have tossed a vote at.

I mean Centaur has one. I've legit never seen a person, in my whole life, roll up a Centaur.

Back in the 2e days, we had a player with a centaur ranger for 2-3 years at least

 

[EzekielRaiden]

It is neat to see elf and dwarf neck-and-neck in popularity.

But when combining elf and half-elf, it surpasses human in popularity.

Can't really do that with these numbers though, since you're almost surely double-counting.

I do find it interesting that this poll so clearly demonstrates the rather significant old-school lean of these forums. D&D Beyond has made it clear that tieflings and dragonborn (despite the latter's mechanical weakness pre-Fizban's) are very popular--moreso than dwarves or halflings, even if you combined variants within each. Yet neither even manages to overtake warforged (or gnomes for goodness' sake), to say nothing of the less-popular but iconic Tolkien races.

 

[Yaarel]

Can't really do that with these numbers though, since you're almost surely double-counting.

Good point, but double counting is probably a good measure of "popularity". Even if something isnt ones favorite, ones second favorite matters too.

 

[Yaarel]

Can't really do that with these numbers though, since you're almost surely double-counting.

I do find it interesting that this poll so clearly demonstrates the rather significant old-school lean of these forums. D&D Beyond has made it clear that tieflings and dragonborn (despite the latter's mechanical weakness pre-Fizban's) are very popular--moreso than dwarves or halflings, even if you combined variants within each. Yet neither even manages to overtake warforged (or gnomes for goodness' sake), to say nothing of the less-popular but iconic Tolkien races.

By the time of 50e (50th anniversary edition), I wonder if there will be a general consensus of what the prominent species are.

 

[Stormonu]

Fair, but Fairy especially I would think someone would have tossed a vote at.

I mean Centaur has one. I've legit never seen a person, in my whole life, roll up a Centaur.

I'm currently playing a Centaur cleric (of Karamentra) in our Theros game, running along a Minotaur barbarian. Just didn't vote for it as my favorite race. Having a blast with him though - I think he outparties the NPC Satyr Wizard sometimes attached to our group.

 

[Maxperson]

I really like the warforged, but I really don't want them to become a generic D&D thing. They fit Eberron perfectly, but would feel really out of place in many other settings.

I currently have a warforged bard in my Forgotten Realms campaign. As long as they are unique or semi-unique creations, I can see them fitting into almost any setting. As an entire race it becomes more problematic.

 

[bedir than]

I mean Centaur has one. I've legit never seen a person, in my whole life, roll up a Centaur.

Was my third vote, mostly because I really enjoyed Centaurs, Hybsil, and Wemics back in 1e/2e.

But in reality my rare 5e PCs are Kobold, Minotaur, Dwarf, Halfling

 

[Demetrios1453]

Totally agree. I wouldn't want to be a Warforged in the Forgotten Realms, Theros, or any other world (except maybe Exandria with its Aeormatons). My own world has its own construct race, which are golem-people with 5 different subraces (clay, gem, metal, stone, glass), built to fit my world. Warforged are too intrinsic to Eberron to fit into most D&D worlds.

Honestly, I could see them coming out of Lantan, which has always been the mysterious magitek area of the Realms. Heck, from what little info they've given us (Lantan is by far the least-covered area in all of Faerun, with only a couple of sentences or paragraphs in all the setting books from every edition so far), it would be easy to imagine it as a sort of mini-Eberron...