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

[fba827]

These polls from wizards are a little tricky in that the voters might be voting based on concept or based on mechanical implementation

example for these ‘favorite races’ some of these have cool concepts that I love love love but the 5e implementation feels so lackluster that I’d never actually want to play it as written in 5e.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

These polls from wizards are a little tricky in that the voters might be voting based on concept or based on mechanical implementation

example for these ‘favorite races’ some of these have cool concepts that I love love love but the 5e implementation feels so lackluster that I’d never actually want to play it as written in 5e.

Yeah, definitely. I think it would be far more useful for them if they had separate 'I like the concept' and 'I like the execution.'

 

[Ruin Explorer]

These polls from wizards are a little tricky in that the voters might be voting based on concept or based on mechanical implementation

example for these ‘favorite races’ some of these have cool concepts that I love love love but the 5e implementation feels so lackluster that I’d never actually want to play it as written in 5e.

Yup and we can see that a bit I think in this list in that if you compare it to "actually played" races it's a total nonsense, with Halfings and Changelings being far less played than they are popular for example.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Yeah, definitely. I think it would be far more useful for them if they had separate 'I like the concept' and 'I like the execution.'

Absolutely. It's very frustrating that such things are often conflated--in both directions.

 

[Maxperson]

To be fair, it would be pretty hard to roll a centaur, even if they didn't have their weapons at hand...

Yep. It would be easier to tip a minotaur, because at least there you can shove it and run for your life.

 

[Maxperson]

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 made one in 1e, had trouble going into dungeons and other places the human sized PCs could, ditched it and rolled up something else.

 

[Maxperson]

I dont know, a Mino would be pretty terrifying.

(Also have you looked at the rules for Mino's? Very thematic, I like them quite a bit.)

Minnows are tiny! Not scary at all.

 

[Scribe]

Yeah, definitely. I think it would be far more useful for them if they had separate 'I like the concept' and 'I like the execution.'

Good call. In this case, I just copied the Wizards one.

 

[Greg K]

Minnows are tiny! Not scary at all.

But what if one is on the S.S. Minnow, "the weather started getting rough" and "the tiny ship was tossed!". A minnow might then be scary.

 

[Scribe]

Human has finally dropped under 50%...