Humans: Essential Race or Sacred Cow?

[kibbitz]

You know, I've always wondered as to how many D&D groups run campaigns with mainly humans, reserving other races for, well, mysterious NPCs...

 

[Mercule]

You know, I've always wondered as to how many D&D groups run campaigns with mainly humans, reserving other races for, well, mysterious NPCs...

I'm running two campaigns at the moment. My Eberron game is anything goes (and doesn't have any human PCs).

My more serious, homebrew campaign has an explicit restriction that human PCs must outnumber all other races in the group and no duplicates, other than human.

Edit: It's worth noting that, with the same group of players, the race seems to be much more of a defining characteristic in the restricted campaign than the non-restricted campaign.

 

[Mark CMG]

Humans: Essential Race or Sacred Cow?

Humans are simply too baseline-esque to be an essential part of the game.

 

[Someone]

I'm done with sacred cow threads!

 

[Doug McCrae]

I'd seriously love to run a game without humans or near-humans. I'd probably center it around lizardfolk, 'cause they're kind of cool.

Robert Asprin's sci-fi book, The Bug Wars, has a human free universe with lizardfolk as the heroes. They fight a coalition of giant intelligent insects. It's pretty cool.

 

[Piratecat]

I'm done with sacred cow threads!

So is EN World!

Klunk.