Humans get privilege.
Careful, you’ll trigger their human fragility.
Humans are space orcs
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…
It can be good for certain builds, but in practice 2-3 of those +1s end up being meaningless for most characters, and with the Tasha’s changes, every character can freely distribute +1/1/1 or +2/1, making it a wash in almost every case, including on Vumans who can pick up an additional +1 from the feat. Between that and only getting one floating skill proficiency when most heritages get a fixed or small list skill proficiency in addition to one or more standout features, base human is by far the weakest choice.
I think giving a feat, a skill and an expertise would be a good way to set them apart a little bit from the other heritages.
Of course it only applies to some builds, like anything else. A couple extra bonuses to avoid negatives on savings throws can be nice though, if the goal is to reduce weaknesses.
Honestly, every class should get at least one skill with expertise. Maybe pick one from their class list, like a Fighter with expertise in Athletics so a Bard isn’t better than them at throwing goblins around. A Bard and Rogue would just have more.
Humans max out their primary at level 4, most op racial ever
No they don’t, you’re thinking of custom lineage
https://www.dndbeyond.com/races/1-human
Humans get +1 to all stats, which means they start with 18 on their primary. At level 4 they get 2 points like everybody else, thus maxing it out and getting a +5 mod.
How are you getting a base 17? 15 is the highest base in standard array or point buy.
Also how does your logic work? Humans get +1 but most races get +2 to an ability.
Their primary what?
Ability score, although a couple of species can also do that
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).
Most races get more darkvision
Half-lings get more luck
Dragonborn get more breath weapons
Humans get more
Honestly I hate playing humans and want to explore other fantasy cultures but that free feat is too fuckdamn good.
I play Dragonborn and Humans are pretty much the meta build for all classes because of the feat bonuses.
I’m not going to say exactly which build, but let’s just say Human X Hybrid can one-shot everything in the game that’s not immune at Level 5.
Say the build! Say the build!
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.
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.
Your comment got me to discover the existence of initialisms and their difference from acronyms, thank you
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!
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
Humans get to…(checks literary notes) not be genocided by other humans, until the xeno menace is destroyed.
Only in fantasy humans get to not be genocided by humans
That’s because in real life we don’t have any other sentient beings to genocide. There’s animals we can extinct of course but it’s just not the same :(
Not so sure. When it comes to human hatred, big differences, petty differences and made-up differences work just as well as one another to motivate atrocities. Elves and aliens would end up on the list, but I don’t think they’d hold us back from being awful to ourselves. Ultimately there’s no real logic, so what in order that would happen is anyone’s guess.
True story. When the colonists showed up in the New World, you think the natives would’ve all banded together against the “alien” threat, but instead the invaders were often able to leverage historic fueds and tribal animosities to get the different groups to help fight each other. I at least know this happened in some instances in South America and Africa.
I play mostly d&d 3.5 and pathfinder 1e And I think human is the most powerful race with his free feat level one ^^
That would be the Variant option for human in 5E, , I believe, which means its up to DM discretion.
So, it inherently isn’t a super safe option if you’re relying on that feat for some reason if you’re a nerd who just workshops builds at various levels for fun.
I’ve banned regular human from my games.
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.
They get an extra foot.
On which leg?
+1 to every stat is great when you play point buy
Idk man. Human T. Bard (the T is for The, yes i like mst3k) was one of my favorite characters to play because he was just a normal bard dude who riffed villians, and sometimes friends.
They have the power of discrimination on their side
Orcs and humans are natural enemies.
Like elves and humans.
Or dwarves and humans.
Or gnomes and humans.
Or halfings and humans.
Or humans and other humans.
Damn humans! They ruined Toril!
You humans sure are a contentious bunch.
You just made a favored enemy for life!
*Or humans and variant humans.
