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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M_Natas" data-source="post: 9171327" data-attributes="member: 7025918">Nah, it is also a different taste ...Like ... Star Trek - the most popular The Next Generation Character in Germany was Data. In the USA it was Picard I think (read the polls to that some time ago).In the US Kirk is more popular than Spock (in TOS, don't know the popularity for new Trek), in Germany Spock is more popular.Germany doesn't have a Wild West Tradition of the Lone Gun Man solving problems with violence.So I think it makes sense that in the US with their history, the fighter archetype is more popular, while in Germany other archetypes are more popular.I'm looking at the Poll I made in the biggest german D&D facebook group - now with nearly 500 votes:The most popular class is the Cleric with 51 Votes (12%), the second most popular one is the Warlock with 46 (11%).The Result so far (I removed some added options like Multiclasses, that were together 12 votes and the blood hunter with 3 votes):<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td><td></td><td>Germany</td><td>US</td></tr><tr><td>Cleric</td><td>51</td><td>11,78%</td><td>8%</td></tr><tr><td>Warlock</td><td>46</td><td>10,62%</td><td>9%</td></tr><tr><td>Rogue</td><td>40</td><td>9,24%</td><td>11%</td></tr><tr><td>Bard</td><td>40</td><td>9,24%</td><td>7%</td></tr><tr><td>Druid</td><td>39</td><td>9,01%</td><td>6%</td></tr><tr><td>Paladin</td><td>38</td><td>8,78%</td><td>7%</td></tr><tr><td>Fighter</td><td>36</td><td>8,31%</td><td>13%</td></tr><tr><td>Forever DM</td><td>36 (took them out of the Calculations)</td><td>0,00%</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Monk</td><td>31</td><td>7,16%</td><td>7%</td></tr><tr><td>Barbarian</td><td>31</td><td>7,16%</td><td>8%</td></tr><tr><td>Ranger</td><td>27</td><td>6,24%</td><td>7%</td></tr><tr><td>Wizard</td><td>26</td><td>6,00%</td><td>8%</td></tr><tr><td>Sorcerer</td><td>15</td><td>3,46%</td><td>7%</td></tr><tr><td>Artificer</td><td>13</td><td>3,00%</td><td>1%</td></tr></table>Fighter is in the middle. The popularity of clerics surprises me., but I have seen them a lot at the tables. The comparison data is from the 2020 D&D Beyond Poll.The low popularity of the sorcerer is surprising. On average you will find more than double the amount of sorcerers in an US party than in a German party and 50% more fighter in the US party compared to the German party.The most likely 4-character US Party is a Fighter, Rogue, Warlock and than either a Cleric, Wizard or Barbarian.The most likely 4- Character-Germany-Party is Cleric, Warlock, Rogue, Bard, which is funny, because my current Party I'm the player in is a Cleric, Warlock/Bard, Rogue and me, a Wizard, so the 4 most popular classes are currently at the table and then my character <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.In the US the two most popular base classes are non-magical, in Germany they are magical.</blockquote>

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