Does anyone else never play humans?

[Truth Seeker]

I have retired the human run...cause I did most of it, in other games. Second, why bother, when I am human myself all the time.

The extra feat and skill poinit, are just that...extra.

 

[haakon1]

I usually play humans. Humanity, obviously, offers a never-ending banquet of human characters to choose from.

I've never played a halfling or a gnome, but I've tried all the other main races. I'm partial to half-orcs and to a lesser extent elves and half-elves. Which means I play about 80% human genes, all told.

 

[Blackthorne]

I play 90% humans and 10% oddball races from the Races series or Savage Species.

Why?

Easy: Humans are the most versatile race. They offer a plethora of role-playing opportunities. You call them bland because there is no special flavor to the race as a whole. That´s what makes them interesting to me.

Plus, us humans are cool.

I also like new races like Warforged or Goliath. Playing them is a challenge if you´re the first in your group to do so. Play them right, play them interesting.

I almost never play Elves, Dwarves and all the other non-human races from the PHB. Overdone, boring, cliché. Thank you.

 

[blargney the second]

now that's just cheating....

Yay!

 

[sniffles]

It's just a shame that so many players out there think the "race" entry on the character sheet is equivalent to "personality".

I so heartily agree with you! And where in the racial description does it say that elves are haughty (or slutty), that gnomes are annoying, or that dwarves are dour and taciturn?

 

[Shard O'Glase]

I almost never play nonhumans.

In D&D I haven't played a nonhuman since the red box set.

I've played 3 nonhumans in shadowrun
1 was an elf waste of space
2 was a troll phy add thorwing weapon specialist
3 was Shinobi Killfist Orc ninja, who wasn't much of a ninja but was a spellcaster who grew up watching ninja movies and wanted to emulate them as a shadowruner.

I just prefer humans.

 

[Corinth]

I will not deviate from the baseline unless I have a overwhelmingly-compelling reason to do so, to the point where I will scourge gratuitous deviations from the norm out of published material when I use it. Therefore the vast majority of my characters are human, PC and NPC alike.

 

[Vlos]

I hate humans! I am a human, well most of the time... so when I play, I like to play something else. Favored race is halfling, probably followed by elf.

But, with that said, I have actually started playing a human in the latest campaign, why? Not because I'm now am open to playing a human, but because they are too powerful not to play a human. Extra Feat at 1st, extra skill points, any favored class (biggie!). It seems 3rd edition went too far the other way. Skill points and Favored class big hits.

So I actually proposed to our group, if I could play a non-human with human quantities(stats). I don't want the racial adjustments, but the skill point and any favored class. The last one is a real biggie, because I like to play non-sterotype of a race, the outcast. Which is usually not having the same favored class.

The group seems open to this and I am probably going to scrap my human and pick up a race with human racials....

 

[Davelozzi]

I will not deviate from the baseline unless I have a overwhelmingly-compelling reason to do so, to the point where I will scourge gratuitous deviations from the norm out of published material when I use it. Therefore the vast majority of my characters are human, PC and NPC alike.

I agree. I'm more likely to try non-humans in one shots but in a regular campaign, I prefer to play humans and run for parties that are mostly human. The integration percentages in 3e community stat blocks are generally way too mixed for my tastes, and I find myself frequently stripping non-human status from NPCs in published material.

 

[babomb]

I mostly play humans. I've been meaning to play a three-quarterling one of these days, though...