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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 6132579" data-attributes="member: 18701">So, people find just about anything to get upset over in RPGs. I've seen RPG targeted politically correct rants about sexual orientation, gender roles, religious views, cultural taboos, and even down to the artwork.I've never cared to give much thought to this stuff because frankly, I find these sort of topics silly in regards to people just playing a game.But I've been writing up a handful of NPCs in the past couple of days and something has finally struck a nerve with me that I would like to rant about:Common!I'm human, and you know what? I'm sick and tired of being treated as average and common in D&D. Why does every single other race, including numbskulls like Kobolds & Goblins, get their own language? Sure, they share it with a select few other races, but their language has a name that represents what they are. My Human PC doesn't even get the respect to have his language called Human. He's disrespected to the point where his language is named after what society thinks of him, not the type of blood running through his veins. Did you stop to think about how so many other nonhuman races automatically speak common? My human has to learn to speak their language and they get mine for free? Even an Otyugh speaks my language! It only takes a 5 intelligence for a poop eating creature to learn my language? They live underground. Shouldn't they speak terran or undercommon? Or is it politically incorrect for a poop eating monster to speak those more sophisticated languages?Yeah, yer gonna say, "Well in [some random setting] the humans speak a dialect of common and it has its own name. Let me guess, those Humans are not "common" humans though, right? They are special in some way. Like, maybe they are from some tribal area in the jungle? Or some Eastern region that's considered "exotic"? Or they come from some wastelands down below where the culture is unusually different than what us common humans are used to? That's even more insulting.Why are humans considered to be in everyone's business and all over the place like pests? If the other races live so much longer, shouldn't the world be overpopulated by their kind? There's a family on TV with 19 kids and those parents are barely pushing 50. As long lived as elves are, I'd think they would have 10 times that many kids running around the world.Has anyone realized that we don't even get ability score modifiers for crying out loud? Or if we do get them, it's half of what the other guys get and they can be placed anywhere. We're not known to be great at anything, we're just "ok" at "whatever". That's how bland we are.I don't even think humans get a racial deity in core D&D. Dwarves have Moradin, Elves have Corellon Larethian, Halflings get Yondalla, etc, etc. But Humans have Pelor or St. Cuthbert, the gods that everyone else gets to claim to be a worshiper of as long as they are the right class.This is an issue that I seriously think needs to be addressed in 5e. It's disrespecting and degrading. I don't see how a company with a customer base consisting of almost 100% humans can constantly get away with depicting the human race like this over & over again.</blockquote>

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