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

[Yaarel]

I disagree with your pairings of Elf/Half-Elf and Orc/half orc to determine rankings when they were all selected choices. You minimize the choices of those that selected one-half or your pairing and not the other along with those that did not choose any of the races in a pairing.

Maybe.

I suspect that if the poll itself combined elf/half-elf and orc/half-orc,

the elf would be less popular than human but significantly more than dwarf.

However, I still expect the orc to do well and remain part of the cluster with tiefling, aasimar, and dragonborn.

 

[Yaarel]

Personally, I prefer the fairy to be without wings, and fly magically. The Tiny pixie should have them (Romantic Period), but the Small childlike fairy not (Renaissance Period).

Fortunately, each fairy is unique and the player is to choose an appearance, and wingless seems ok per rules-as-written.

 

[Greg K]

Maybe

However, I still expect the orc to do well and remain part of the cluster with tiefling, aasimar, and dragonborn.

Acknowleding that there is no weighting
Human goes to the top spot as it is about twenty points ahead of the next choice,
Elf gets clustered with Dwarf.
Half-elf (one of my choices) drops below dwarf (not my choice).
The half-orc at 6%, maybe gets clustered with Lizardfolk (just over 7%) or it drops off.
The orc falls off the list as it is just over 4% compared to the Lizardman's just over 7%. given that it is closer to being clustered with Gensai and Goblin which are not on the list.

 

[Yaarel]

Acknowleding that there is no weighting
Human goes to the top spot as it is about twenty points ahead of the next choice,
Elf gets clustered with Dwarf.
Half-elf (one of my choices) drops below dwarf (not my choice).
The half-orc at 6%, maybe gets clustered with Lizardfolk (just over 7%) or it drops off.
The orc falls off the list as it is just over 4% compared to the Lizardman's just over 7%. given that it is closer to being clustered with Gensai and Goblin which are not on the list.

I would like to see a poll that combines the elf with half-elf and orc with half-orc.

It could be that the orc/half-orc has fallen out of popularity because of cultural sensitivities, or the choices of more clearly monstrous species have surpassed them.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

I would like to see a poll that combines the elf with half-elf and orc with half-orc.

It could be that the orc/half-orc has fallen out of popularity because of cultural sensitivities, or the choices of more clearly monstrous species have surpassed them.

I, personally, would also prefer a poll that doesn't include Human, because it will always be the most common choice in D&D. Like, this is true of literally every MMO, even MMOs where there are clear mechanical advantages. Human and its variants remain the most popular race in WoW (albeit only narrowly), and the only thing that meaningfully threatened that was the existence of Blood Elf (and thus the option to be "pretty" while playing the "savage" faction).

When you automatically know that over 40% of respondents will vote for a specific option, and that option will tower over all other alternatives, it's more informative to just set it aside and ask what things people like OTHER than that near-automatic option. You'll learn more that way.

 

[Yaarel]

I, personally, would also prefer a poll that doesn't include Human, because it will always be the most common choice in D&D. Like, this is true of literally every MMO, even MMOs where there are clear mechanical advantages. Human and its variants remain the most popular race in WoW (albeit only narrowly), and the only thing that meaningfully threatened that was the existence of Blood Elf (and thus the option to be "pretty" while playing the "savage" faction).

When you automatically know that over 40% of respondents will vote for a specific option, and that option will tower over all other alternatives, it's more informative to just set it aside and ask what things people like OTHER than that near-automatic option. You'll learn more that way.

And I would like the human to be there anyway even if unpopular. Because human is the feature we can relate to, that serves as a unit of measurement to get a sense of other features that are fictional.


There are D&D players who have human-only games. This is a fun choice for certain settings.

But human-only games is probably not relevant to the question of what are the favorite nonhuman species.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

And I would like the human to be there anyway even if unpopular. Because human is the feature we can relate to, that serves as a unit of measurement to get a sense of other features that are fictional.


There are D&D players who have human-only games. This is a fun choice for certain settings.

But human-only games is probably not relevant to the question of what are the favorite nonhuman species.

...you misunderstand. I don't mean "don't include human as a race." I mean don't include them in the poll, because we all know that human is going to win, so we get more info by asking people about their non-human race preferences. Humans winning is a long, long, LONG trend. It's not news. It's not interesting. Learning what people choose when human is a presumed pick is more interesting, because people won't be forced to pick the "like-me" option.

 

[Scribe]

I, personally, would also prefer a poll that doesn't include Human, because it will always be the most common choice in D&D. Like, this is true of literally every MMO, even MMOs where there are clear mechanical advantages. Human and its variants remain the most popular race in WoW (albeit only narrowly), and the only thing that meaningfully threatened that was the existence of Blood Elf (and thus the option to be "pretty" while playing the "savage" faction).

When you automatically know that over 40% of respondents will vote for a specific option, and that option will tower over all other alternatives, it's more informative to just set it aside and ask what things people like OTHER than that near-automatic option. You'll learn more that way.

People have 2 other votes though, I still think its a valuable data point.

 

[Scribe]

...you misunderstand. I don't mean "don't include human as a race." I mean don't include them in the poll, because we all know that human is going to win, so we get more info by asking people about their non-human race preferences. Humans winning is a long, long, LONG trend. It's not news. It's not interesting. Learning what people choose when human is a presumed pick is more interesting, because people won't be forced to pick the "like-me" option.

But it isnt. 50% of the responders did not pick it with 1 of 3 choices.

 

[Bolares]

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