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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8819829" data-attributes="member: 6801228">This is fairly nonsensical though. Firstly, being highly ambitious and adventurous isn't somehow fantastical in the context of humans. Humans have pushed and explored the edges of the world throughout our entire existence. Before the invention of sail boats or any way to preserve food, we had already traveled the majority of the globe. Just... stop and appreciate that for the moment. The Inuit people have lived in the arctic since the time of the Great Pyramids (approx. 3,000 BCE), and their ancestors likely crossed into that land over ten thousand years before that. And the Chon or the Puelche people lived as far as the tip of South America (records are hard to google). So it is fair to say humans spanned the entire globe by at a bare, bare minimum the time of Classical Greek culture. We know there are human remains in South America dating back to at least 8,000 BCE Humans have a drive that pushes them to achieve great feats. Period. But, also, not every single human in a DnD world is seeking glory and adventure. We have farmers, we have bakers, we have cobblers, we have people who just want to live a simple life. The idea that halflings represent &quot;real-world&quot; humans in their love of comfort and home is ludicrous. Humans fill that role. What is happening is you are overstating the racial character of humanity to try and make humans inhuman.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8819829, member: 6801228"] This is fairly nonsensical though. Firstly, being highly ambitious and adventurous isn't somehow fantastical in the context of humans. Humans have pushed and explored the edges of the world throughout our entire existence. Before the invention of sail boats or any way to preserve food, we had already traveled the majority of the globe. Just... stop and appreciate that for the moment. The Inuit people have lived in the arctic since the time of the Great Pyramids (approx. 3,000 BCE), and their ancestors likely crossed into that land over ten thousand years before that. And the Chon or the Puelche people lived as far as the tip of South America (records are hard to google). So it is fair to say humans spanned the entire globe by at a bare, bare minimum the time of Classical Greek culture. We know there are human remains in South America dating back to at least 8,000 BCE Humans have a drive that pushes them to achieve great feats. Period. But, also, not every single human in a DnD world is seeking glory and adventure. We have farmers, we have bakers, we have cobblers, we have people who just want to live a simple life. The idea that halflings represent "real-world" humans in their love of comfort and home is ludicrous. Humans fill that role. What is happening is you are overstating the racial character of humanity to try and make humans inhuman. [/QUOTE]

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