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<blockquote data-quote="OpsKT" data-source="post: 6399657" data-attributes="member: 70780">I personally love the basic human - while we've seen a lot of good debate on the _numbers_ side of it, we are not seeing as much on the _story_ side of it. Human's are one of the few races (the other one being half-elf) that gets to pick a language. Elves and Dwarves all hate Orcs, and Goblins, and etc, but they always need to go find a human to translate unless they use a feat for languages, or 250gold and 250 days to learn the language. Other races can live next to each other for generations and never learn each others language, humans that grow up next to Dwarves (for example) likely know it. While Common always works, diplomacy and trade is always enhanced if you honor the people you trade with by using their language. Settings wise, human's dominate in 90% of the published settings. Sure, you can be a Dragonborn, or a Gnome, or whatever to get the best stats, but the bartender that &quot;Don't serve your kind here.&quot; doesn't care that you have darkvision and are more graceful than he is. If anything, that perhaps makes you more _alien_ to him. People forget this is a RPG some days, and there are consequences and advantages for non-math parts of your characters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OpsKT, post: 6399657, member: 70780"] I personally love the basic human - while we've seen a lot of good debate on the _numbers_ side of it, we are not seeing as much on the _story_ side of it. Human's are one of the few races (the other one being half-elf) that gets to pick a language. Elves and Dwarves all hate Orcs, and Goblins, and etc, but they always need to go find a human to translate unless they use a feat for languages, or 250gold and 250 days to learn the language. Other races can live next to each other for generations and never learn each others language, humans that grow up next to Dwarves (for example) likely know it. While Common always works, diplomacy and trade is always enhanced if you honor the people you trade with by using their language. Settings wise, human's dominate in 90% of the published settings. Sure, you can be a Dragonborn, or a Gnome, or whatever to get the best stats, but the bartender that "Don't serve your kind here." doesn't care that you have darkvision and are more graceful than he is. If anything, that perhaps makes you more _alien_ to him. People forget this is a RPG some days, and there are consequences and advantages for non-math parts of your characters. [/QUOTE]

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