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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8683384" data-attributes="member: 6790260">On the subject of the power of racial features vs popularity of the associated race, there's basically no correlation, and it's trivially easy to prove.Halflings with their luck barely hit the top 8 (and that only if you lump together subraces), and gnomes don't even crack the top 10. Meanwhile, PHB-standard dragonborn are among the weakest options in the game, significantly lower than every other PHB option. (The Fizban's updated Metallic/Chromatic/Gem options are a significant improvement, but we've never seen any data on how much they've been played, as Fizban's is much more recent than the most recent D&D Beyond statistics.) Yet dragonborn have essentially only grown in popularity across 5e's lifespan; the above chart is not the most recent one, which showed dragonborn had overtaken tieflings.Meanwhile, half-elves are one of the most baseline powerful races, being one of the only races that offers +2/+1/+1, and giving extra skills and other benefits. They've also been consistently the third-most popular individual option (behind standard human and variant human) for essentially the game's entire run. (If you lump subraces together, IIRC half-elf is slightly behind Elves collectively. But it's never been out of the top 5, no matter how you slice things.)Popularity of ancestry options in 5e has no clear relationship to the power of those options. It's mostly what people think sounds pretty cool.</blockquote>

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