Do You Prefer a Humanocentric RPG Setting?

[Agback]

Why Did You Do That? Not Criticising, But My 'Shift' Finger Aches Already.

I Was Following The Typographical Convention Established In The OP.

 

[hong]

Hey There Mr Evill! Welcome Back!

 

[Shadowdancer]

Prefer, no. But most of the settings I play in tend to be humanocentric.

 

[Imp]

I voted "yes", but the truth is, very pulpy settings with a whole circus of wildly different humanoids running amok can be great fun too, especially if everyone can agree to stress the pulp aspect and not take the whole distinct-culture-and-mindset business too seriously.

 

[William Ronald]

Generally, I portray human characters. However, I tend to think of a humanocentric campaign as one where humans matter. I think all character races can be given a chance to shine, but many settings seem to have humanity as the dominant humanoid species. (Perhaps we will begin seeing more of a "voice in a chorus" approach where humans are an important species, but that several of the other nonhuman species are important as well. In science fiction, Babylon 5 did a very good job of this, as humanity had a big role to play, helping different races to find common cause and work with each other.)

 

[Agback]

Hey There Mr Evill! Welcome Back!

Thanks, Hong. I'm Feeling Much Better Now.

 

[Gremory]

One of my favorite campaigns was set in a world with humans as just about the only sentient race (and they were also the only playable race.)

I think other humanoid races just end up being human stereotypes. Orcs are brutish humans, gnomes are short, silly people, hobbits are rural Englishmen... bleh, I like the core races as is, but for the most part I'd prefer to have some totally bizarre not at all human creatures in the world and just let the people be people.

 

[Ace]

Yes. I usually run Human (or variant Human) only games in fact

 

[Vymair]

I definitely prefer human-centric. I always ahve difficulty figuring out why elves would rush to do anything. They just do it to stay with the party. As I see it, I figures elves would typically ignore anything that doesn't have long-term impacts. It's just tough to get in the habit of thinking in decades vs years...

 

[GreatLemur]

I'm passing on this one. I tend to come up with all-human settings, but I'd run a no-humans game in a hearthbeat. I strongly disavow both the "We're humans, so we can only understand humans!" and "We're human all day and we play RPGs to escape ourselves!" positions.

I kinda hate the standard Tolkien-esque array of fantasy races, though.