Homebrew Intelligent Human Subrace

[Christineupfold]

Cool idea for a Homebrew Human Subrace


Intelligent Human Racial Traits
• +2 Int, +2 Wis, +2 Cha
• Age: Intelligent Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.
• Medium: As Medium creatures, Intelligent humans have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
• Speed: Human base land speed is 30 feet.
• Skillful: 4 extra ability points at 1st level and 1 extra ability point at each additional level.
• Automatic Language: Common. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic). See the Speak Language skill.
• Gifted. Any Intelligent human has their own background and abilities often intertwined with the story. You can get any two Feats.
• Studied: Choose one skill from either Int, Wis, or Cha to be proficient in.
• Combat Analysis: You may use Intelligence instead of Dexterity for initiative rolls. (Optional)
• Bonus Bonus Action: Starting at 5th level, you can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional bonus action. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting at 11th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

 

[Thommy H-H]

This is obviously broken, as well as being inconsistent with 5e presentation, so I suspect there is some other agenda at play here. What is this "intelligent human" meant to be, exactly?

 

[Tonguez]

This is obviously broken, as well as being inconsistent with 5e presentation, so I suspect there is some other agenda at play here. What is this "intelligent human" meant to be, exactly?

absolutely this, the build is way broken
+6 stats, two feats
a weird extra skill feature that reads more like 3.5e than 5e
initiative bonus for Wizards and an extra bonus actions that blows out the action economy

 

[Andvari]

What if you roll 3 and put it in Int. Granted, it will be increased to 5, but is the character still an Intelligent Human then?

 

[VashVet]

 

[Reynard]

Can we at least penalize all the physical stats to get that 50s sci-fi big head evolved human flavor?

 

[aco175]

I first read it and thought that having one subrace of human being called intelligent means that the others are less somehow being implied. Then I thought the thread would be a problem with picking that subrace in real world terms and devolving to closing the thread.

I kind of feel that the older editions had race more like Tolkien in that elves were the more intelligent 'humans', and to only have one human race. This points to all the threads of races being just humans with funny hats on.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Okay, this has to be a parody. There's no other explanation for the ridiculousness on display here.

Let's just hope that it's not a foot-in-the-door, to set us up thinking "oh that's ridiculous" so the still-inappropriate, but not overwhelmingly inappropriate, alternative seems nicer.

Frankly, just the presentation alone is laughable. "Intelligent Human".

On the bright side, it makes me feel a lot better about the ideas I've toyed with over the years...

 

[Horwath]

if you want more powerful or versatile characters, just say so.

we played with 36pt point buy pool(15 still the max), we played with everyone getting extra 3 feats at 1st level.
it broke nothing.

but you need to make it fair for all,


this is so obviously broken, that I'm afraid we are all feeding the troll here.

 

[GMMichael]

This is obviously broken, as well as being inconsistent with 5e presentation, so I suspect there is some other agenda at play here. What is this "intelligent human" meant to be, exactly?

Broken until you recall that intelligent humans don't procreate. They wait until the timing is right for their careers, mortgages, and/or the economy (which is never). /idiocracy