D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

[Incenjucar]

Gnomes are the ones traditionally left unplayed.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Dwarves are pretty durable, getting resistance to poison damage (the best resistance of any race) plus an extra 1hp per level.

I would say they compete well with the Orc and Goliath as the most durable races in 2024.

I ment if they should have an active combat option, it should be about making them harder to kill.

Someone has played a dwarf in nearly every game I have run in every edition since B/X.

I also tend to play either humans or dwarves. I sometimes get the urge to play a tortle or something but then nearly no one else in the group chooses a human and I end being one instead because unless the theme or setting is specifically about there being no humans I kinda need there to be at least one.

why do you care if there are no humans or dwarves?

Gnomes are the ones traditionally left unplayed.

the red-headed stepchild of the classic demihumans, they lack a place in the world a core definition or even a visual factor to get people to play them, when the classes opened up in 3e they suffered a massive set back

 

[Hussar]

Dwarves are far more popular than Halflings IME. In the past 10 years I have only seen 1 Halfling that was played by someone other than me.

Even before 2024 boosted Dwarves, they were still among the most popular choices for Wizards due to the Armor proficiency.

I mean, yeah. Look, I know that I have apparently earned a reputation for hating halflings, despite actually playing them, but, I gotta say, there's some serious revisionist history going on here. It's the first time I've ever seen anyone try to claim that halfling PC's are popular.

As far as gnomes go, I think the most telling experience for me was in the early days of 3e I was playing Scarred Lands. We'd been playing Scarred Lands for about a year or so when someone actually asked me where the SL writeup for gnomes was and we, as a group, actually realized that there were no gnomes in Ghaelspad. We'd made many characters, played for quite a while, and no one even noticed that gnomes weren't an option.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I mean, yeah. Look, I know that I have apparently earned a reputation for hating halflings, despite actually playing them, but, I gotta say, there's some serious revisionist history going on here. It's the first time I've ever seen anyone try to claim that halfling PC's are popular.

As far as gnomes go, I think the most telling experience for me was in the early days of 3e I was playing Scarred Lands. We'd been playing Scarred Lands for about a year or so when someone actually asked me where the SL writeup for gnomes was and we, as a group, actually realized that there were no gnomes in Ghaelspad. We'd made many characters, played for quite a while, and no one even noticed that gnomes weren't an option.

I am the halfling-hating guy, not you.