White human male has always been the most popular D&D character, only followed by white elf male, white half-elf male, white dwarf male, and white halfling male. Starting to see a pattern? The other strange races are simply niche, and have always been niche. I find that people who play them are also the people who constantly ask to play something out of the Monster Manual just to be different. Edge lords, the lot of them.
Indeed. Doesn't look like skin color was included, a bit back WotC used their online platform to track race/class (apologies for no archive, but the table doesn't seem to show up in the archive) combos and the top 5 were:
White human male has always been the most popular D&D character, only followed by white elf male, white half-elf male, white dwarf male, and white halfling male. Starting to see a pattern? The other strange races are simply niche, and have always been niche. I find that people who play them are also the people who constantly ask to play something out of the Monster Manual just to be different. Edge lords, the lot of them.
Indeed. Doesn't look like skin color was included, a bit back WotC used their online platform to track race/class (apologies for no archive, but the table doesn't seem to show up in the archive) combos and the top 5 were:
Human Fighter
Elf Ranger
Elf Wizard
Human Wizard
Human Rogue
Human and Elf accounted for >40% of characters
Must be work of the gays.