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
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.
+1 to every stat is great when you play point buy
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!
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!
*Or humans and variant humans.
You humans sure are a contentious bunch.
You just made a favored enemy for life!
Humans get to slowly raise the temperature of the world over 100 years until it causes a mass extinction event. It’s very effective.
“Parry this, you filthy casual!”
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
I think your mom was a pyrrhic victory.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got 'em.
Or burn down the tree-huggers’ woods.
Lol do you know how insanely flammable your trailer is?
When I block someone, they can still see my comments, but I’ll never see them again, right?
Yeah, and as far as I’m aware they can respond to you too. I much prefer it over Reddit’s approach, it was often used as a “Haha, I get the last word!” Button.
That was their final iteration before I left, but previous to their changes it was the exact same thing. You could see, respond, etc. they just couldn’t see your responses.
Their final solution made for some stupid issues. Like accounts that went around intentionally spreading misinformation could just block the people that called out the BS, delete their comment, and say it again.
And worse, you couldn’t comment anywhere under their comment. So not just directly to them, but also anyone who replied to them. I had to make a secondary account for such situations because of a similar issue to the last paragraph.
This makes me want to give humans something besides the boring “generalist” abilities, like +1 to all skills or bonus feat thing in by setting, but I don’t know what lol
in 5e, variant human gets an extra feat.
Does that mean they can run really fast? Or is it not on a leg?
Humans get to know that their better than everyone like how batman is better than superman
Better at being the real criminal.
they’re
Let him be, it was a simple human mistake.
Sorry mb
Humans get privilege.
Careful, you’ll trigger their human fragility.
humans made up for it in warcraft with reputation and spirit bonuses though
Don’t humans get two extra proficiencies to represent their adaptability and quick learning?
Boooooring
Especially given humans have real standout traits like being endurance hunters, somewhat rapid scarring and a high resistance to shock (advantage on constitution checks?)
Everyone’s an endurance hunter in DnD.
Boring AND conceited. I always roll my eyes at this trope of “unlike all these different fantasy beings that are good are specific things, we can be good at everything”. Seems like imagination falling short, that other beings would not have their own breadth of possibilities, and humans wouldn’t have their own unique advantages that are particular just to them.
If I had to pick one thing, it would probably be something teamwork related. Humans are very social beings compared to other animals.
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).
Humans write the story. Best power of them all.
And microplastics
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.
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.
Is a half halfling a quarterling?
Why wouldn’t it be?
well it depends on what the half in halfling is. if they’re half human already they could be three-quarterslings which doesn’t roll off the tounge very well.
And half a quarterling is a sixteenthling, just like music.
Alternative: humans were specifically engineered to be able to half-breed with anything - even elemental beings - so that they’d be able to take over the world.
Too close to great replacement theory to be campaign safe IMO
This is the truth they don’t want us to know.
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
Do they fuck everything, or get fucked by everything? How that half orc came into existence wasn’t a good time for everyone.
How that half orc came into existence wasn’t a good time for everyone.
Haha, unexpectedly wholesome!
Found the bard. ^
One day I’m going to play an asexual bard, just to subvert expectations.
Dragons and Nymphs
don’tfuck around. Got it.How do you fuck a dragon?
Have you watched Shrek?
With a car
I’m so glad this meme transcends platforms
And fiends of course
Ah, good old Book of Erotic Fantasy. It’s so gloriously stupid that everyone should own a copy. That table is by far not the silliest part of the book.
It’s only bested by the official sex rulebook for The Dark Eye, which is an April Fools joke that spiraled out of control and has actual rules for intercourse – deliberately bureaucratic and unsexy ones included purely as a “you asked for it” joke at the reader’s expense.
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!
Be sure to continue your research with an image search, because they are cute as fuck.
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.
So basically your mitochondria decides your species?
Personally I like keeping it a little more complicated. It’s the same race as the mother, unless the mother is a ditto, in which case it’s the same race as the father.
At first I read this as “these species can fuck each other”. Then I realized that this is only concerning conception, all these species could fuck each other as they please.
If it applies to DnD’s cosmology, than it has to mean with viable offspring, because half-dwarves canonically exist in the Darksun setting and they’re called Muls.
There’s a small text at the bottom explaining the chart.
Half dwarves exist in the default rules, they’re just indistinguishable from dwarves. Supposedly they’re actually pretty common.
Y or M means you can fuck that species. N means you can fuck that species without protection.
No way would I fuck a bugbear without some sort of protection…
I see that nymphs bang everything, makes sense. Sprites are only slowing down (with M for Maybe) at very large sized humanoids like Giants and Ogres, that’s pretty hardcore/disturbing.
dryads reject lizardfolk and only lizardfolk
By this I’m assuming lizard-folk lay eggs.
You’re thinking of dragons. Humans only have the ability to fuck elves, orcs, and dragons.
