As an option in the future, if the Dev Team is interested in mining a large dataset to determine "popular" choices for expansion, D&D Beyond has tens of thousands of D&D players and would provide answers like this:
Most popular D&D races (2020) - again, care of Geek Native:
- Human
- Half-Elf
- Dragonborn
- Tiefling
- Half-Orc
Most popular D&D classes (2020) - again, care of Geek Native:
- Fighter
- Rogue
- Barbarian
- Wizard
- Paladin
i think those are a little biased 1] i think may folk test the water with a simple character [eg human fighter] i think the results would be better if they only looked at characters that are higher level or have been played with for a while. 2] demographics might be off since not everyone uses dndbeyond
yellow flower of courage
Biased, as in a large data set, utilized by people that play D&D, which enables multiple characters to be created, and is accessible to anyone?
Opinions will vary, you might take that data set into "consideration" over only utilizing a poll on this forum to determine expansion classes/races.
I think the race results are quite telling and for the record, someone always shows up with fighter in my D&D groups :)
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