Humans in OneDnD have an insp point they can toss on shit now which is pretty cool, feels like an embracing of the trope that humans will act as a glue that can bridge cultural differences between other races.
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Humans get to slowly raise the temperature of the world over 100 years until it causes a mass extinction event. It's very effective.
It's called playing the long game, maybe look it up. You may have won the campaign(s), but I won the multi-generational war.
I think that win was a pyrrhic victory
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Fizban Dragonborn get a much better dragonbreath and a pretty respectable ability at level 5.
And Earth Genasi get to turn any class into limited Barbarian with a bonus Group stealth bonus
Variant Humans get to choose their own ability.
+1 to every stat is great when you play point buy
Humans should get "All healing received is maximized (ie: treat it as if the dice each rolled their maximum value)" to reflect how humans weirdly bounce back from things that should have been fatal.
I have a homebrew that I need to revisit and fix the formatting of for mixed heritage PCs, and the system I came up with meant that I had to give every race four traits. Some of these would be minor, like darkvision, but there had to be four. I went with a once-per-day refuse-to-die ability and a proficiency-per-day advantage on a roll of your choice, so that the one thing humans do best is push through the tough situations
In my games this would be called the HFY rule because of how pervasive the trope is in that theme.
How do you pronounce that? "Huffy?"
"Humanity Fuck Yeah"
It's an initialism. Aitch-Eff-Why. I've never heard it pronounced before.
Humanity: Fuck Yeah!
Subgenre of science fiction subverting the "humans are average" trope by celebrating the things that make humanity unique among hypothetical alien civilizations. Lots of emphasis on our durability, endurance, creativity, and potential for overwhelming violence.
Hey this was fortuitous! I just ran across that acronym a couple days ago and meant to look it up, but wandered off, and then here we are!
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I haven't played since 3.5 do humans not get an extra feat at level 1 anymore?
The variant human does, base human gets +1 to all 6 stats compared to +3 divided in some way that the others get (almost always in a 2/1 split).
Don't humans have the ability to fuck everything? It's why half elves and half orcs exist, but no non-human hybrids.
Technically it implies that all these other races are diverged near humans, humans being relatively unchanged remain close enough to produce viable offspring, but with different non human races being diverged from each other to the point of non viability.
So basically the racial map for a D&D setting would have humans at the center, with half children in each of the spokes of a wheel, and every non human race being nodes located in the environment where they developed in extremity, and then from there you can build the environment under the premise of the conditions that developed elves or dwarves or orcs from the human starting point.
This would also have to include a backstory spanning tens of thousands of years.
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You're thinking of dragons. Humans only have the ability to fuck elves, orcs, and dragons.
Honestly, Elder Scrolls has it right: the offspring of two different races will always be the race of the mother, but with some traits of the father.
None of that funny crossbreeding stuff, just keep it simple.
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dryads reject lizardfolk and only lizardfolk
By this I'm assuming lizard-folk lay eggs.
It never occurred me until now that half dwarves are not a thing
Muls from the Dark Sun setting are half dwarves. They’re sterile so I guess maybe they don’t count?
I was gonna say something about ligers and tigons, but then I did some research (looked it up on Wikipedia) and I learned some stuff. It has no relevance to my life, but it did clear up my misconception that hybrids are always sterile! So, in addition to making $125 donating plasma, making a new friend at the bus stop, and almost immediately getting drunk, I learned that some hybrids can be viable!
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You sure? I believe I remember there being a story about a halfling or a gnome drinking an enlarge potion or two to get hot and sweaty with some giantess.
That'll be from the human half of the half ling.
Imagine being the halfling-giant and you're just some normal guy.
You're gonna have big feet no matter what
You know what they say about big feet...
Depends on the setting, some have other half species
Found the bard. ^
One day I'm going to play an asexual bard, just to subvert expectations.
This is the truth they don't want us to know.
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Humans max out their primary at level 4, most op racial ever
Their primary what?
Ability score, although a couple of species can also do that
Vumans get a feat, which is arguably one of the strongest abilities. Base humans are notoriously weak though.
Base humans are generalists, which by their nature won't have something specific that stands out. +1 to each stat and I think an extra skill is nice if you like not being terrible at anything. Not great at anything is a tradeoff that other races don't have though...
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