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<blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 8820710" data-attributes="member: 6914290">I mean pretty much yeah. If they are intended to be exactly the same as real world earth humans, then including a description would be a waste of time, space, and money.That the description comes with a whole page of non-earth fantasy ethnicities would seem to lend further weight to the idea that D&amp;D humans are not 1 for 1 analogues with Earth humans. Further further reinforcing that idea is the fact that D&amp;D human share a magical setting with a whole host of speaking, dreaming, working, sentient non-human races. They do this rather than existing as functionally the only sentient game in town in a nonmagical setting.But here's the hypocrisy of it all.Someone brings up what the book says about humans, you go &quot;Yeah yeah, sure but I know what humans are really like and the PHB doesnt cover all of it&quot;..Someone else says &quot;Well halflings are this way to me&quot;, if it's not straight out of the PHB, you go..&quot;THAT'S HOMEBREW..IT DOESN'T COUNT&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gammadoodler, post: 8820710, member: 6914290"] I mean pretty much yeah. If they are intended to be exactly the same as real world earth humans, then including a description would be a waste of time, space, and money. That the description comes with a whole page of non-earth fantasy ethnicities would seem to lend further weight to the idea that D&D humans are not 1 for 1 analogues with Earth humans. Further further reinforcing that idea is the fact that D&D human share a magical setting with a whole host of speaking, dreaming, working, sentient non-human races. They do this rather than existing as functionally the only sentient game in town in a nonmagical setting. But here's the hypocrisy of it all. Someone brings up what the book says about humans, you go "Yeah yeah, sure but I know what humans are really like and the PHB doesnt cover all of it".. Someone else says "Well halflings are this way to me", if it's not straight out of the PHB, you go.."THAT'S HOMEBREW..IT DOESN'T COUNT" [/QUOTE]

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