Thanks for the answer, I honestly assumed that if you were playing the free version you would simply not have any feats since it is a variant rule, what really made me double check this was the fact that a lot of level 1 (non-human variant) characters had this feat when they should have none whatsoever.
What about Svirfneblin Magic? Any explanation for that one? It truly does not make sense that a race exclusive supplementary only (Mordekainen tome of foes) feat could possibility be on the top 10 most popular feats.

Thank you. I think this is the opposite of why the artificer is so unpopular. Grappler is the default (and only?) free feat on dndbeyond I think. So any character using feats without buying a book will have it.

Yeah an official API would be so great to work with (and so much less work). I do want to encourage you to try and get the data yourself as well! Feel free to send a DM on twitter or an email to dice.scroller@gmail.com if you need any help or have questions on how I did things.

First of all, thank you for the extensive answer.

Regarding the IDs, huh, the edit distribution is really interesting if the sequential IDs hypothesis is true. (Side note: what a pity that dndbeyond does not, and will not, offer an API and documentation so we could know the truth) Could be actually interesting thing to see a trend of people keeping their old characters through editing. I know I definitely would, if my ID would be 1 😀
And the artificer thing, yeah, they are clearly at the end of the popularity list even in the official statistics from WotC, so I wouldn’t expect it to be suddenly not in the last place when it comes to popularity, even in the full data.

As for the requests, could have been I just ran an infinite loop for a few seconds or something, as I said, I was messing around 😀 But with this info, I am even tempted to try to scrape the data myself.

Hi Wox, thank you!
I thought that I filtered out duplicate characters when collecting the data. So during the analysis I didn’t double check. But it seems that you are correct and some IDs have duplicates. I think this must have been times where my laptop crashed during the collection process and I restarted the script without properly checking what ID was last?
I am currently quite busy but I do have the idea of creating a better version of this. Perhaps even with all the characters and also including a lot more other data like subclasses and backgrounds. I do love that people like the data so much and I hope it makes people play the “less popular” combinations as well!

Hi Maxime, very cool project! We love it.

I was wondering if you did take the following into account: it seems that in the original csv, more than a few characters are listed multiple times (even with the same char_id/BeyondID). For example BeyondID 800090 (Name: Zalishtia Kalissh) appears four times, and many other characters appear multiple times as well.

Perhaps a suggestion: Would love to see a new dataset that goes from the newest IDs to the older IDs (e.g. start at BeyondID 101,000,000 and go down back to 80,000,000). In the online D&D Discords this is getting shared, people love seeing how rare certain combination are, and are saying stuff like “I’m glad I had the pleasure of playing alongside the only minotaur rogue!” But alas, that’s not the truth.