D&D 5E Humans Only

[Reynard]

Oh and another strike against "all human" campaigns, they have an unfortunately strong tendency to mean "all white hicks from some dodgy inbred little village". I know the OP said "no other restrictions" which would imply otherwise, but unless that's spelled out, I'm suspicious as HELL about any "all humans" campaign.

If I did decide to give one a try, there are still some things that would make me decide not to. Like if the DM said humans only because all the other intelligent races are evil andare trying to destroy the humans. Or if the DM said human only and everyone has to be from the same place and be the same race/ethnicity. At that point, I would be wondering if my DM were hiding some secrets about how he really feels about some people in real life, and that would make me very uncomfortable to continue being his friend.

Both of these concerns strike me both ridiculous and a little insulting.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I appreciate that you like to have options to customize your character, but I think it is pretty well within the DM's purview to customize his game with limited options.

I'm pretty sure the questions was whether I would play in their game.

 

[cmad1977]

Like… totally.
Depending on the setting you might want to open up the racial ability bonuses to people to illustrate a natural bent towards one stat or another.

But yeah… I’m in.

 

[Reynard]

Like… totally.
Depending on the setting you might want to open up the racial ability bonuses to people to illustrate a natural bent towards one stat or another.

But yeah… I’m in.

I'm inclined to just use an array that represents the appropriate base power level of the PCs I am aiming for, and not bother with bonuses at all. Something like 16, 15, 13, 13, 11, 9

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Both of these concerns strike me both ridiculous and a little insulting.

Or maybe they hit you a little too close to home. This is not the ignorant 70's any more and knowingly playing with racists should not ever happen.

 

[Umbran]

Or maybe they hit you a little too close to home.

Mod Note:

If you are going to make this personal, you'll be removed from the discussion. Treat folks with more respect than this going forward.

 

[Greg K]

Like a significant fraction of the fun of D&D 5E is the ridiculous races. A measurable amount.

I am sure that is true for you and many people. Personally, I find human pc only campaigns more interesting and fun.

There are loads of other games (including other D&D variants) to play if we're playing humans-only, where you're not abandoning a decent chunk of the design space and conceptual fun by being humans.

Why should they play something else? While I prefer a few other systems (e.g. Tiny Dungeon, Savage Worlds, Barbarians of Lemuria, and, occasionally Rolemaster) to D&D, some people don't want to learn and/or purchase other systems. I know other people that have similar experiences and, as a result, D&D becomes the compromise system for fantasy. However some of those same players not wanting to purchase and/or learn a new system (other than D&D) are fine with customizing the campaign by limiting options. Plus, D&D has a long history of house ruling and campaign customization to tailor the experience.

 

[FrozenNorth]

Oh and another strike against "all human" campaigns, they have an unfortunately strong tendency to mean "all white hicks from some dodgy inbred little village". I know the OP said "no other restrictions" which would imply otherwise, but unless that's spelled out, I'm suspicious as HELL about any "all humans" campaign.

That is a good point. Already I would would be less interested in a humans-only campaign, but that would be even more the case if I couldn’t play my Arabic-inspired scholar and alchemist.

 

[Maxperson]

Oh and another strike against "all human" campaigns, they have an unfortunately strong tendency to mean "all white hicks from some dodgy inbred little village". I know the OP said "no other restrictions" which would imply otherwise, but unless that's spelled out, I'm suspicious as HELL about any "all humans" campaign.

38 years and multiple all human campaigns later and I've never once seen this. This comment is pretty off base I think.

 

[Blue]

Playing Strahd right now, DM asked us all to play human. No problem. Poof.