So what exactly are "Humans" going to get?

[ForeverSlayer]

I see there is nothing under the human entry with regards to anything special. I wonder what you get for being a human.

 

[Stalker0]

Right now it appears that the human has higher stats overall than the other characters, so people are suggesting they might get more stat bumps.

 

[Andor]

Looks like +1 to all stats to me. Kinda sweet...

 

[ForeverSlayer]

Looks like +1 to all stats to me. Kinda sweet...

Andor and Stalker: I noticed that as well.

 

[DEFCON 1]

From the thread where some players reverse engineered the ability scores...

Humans apparently get a +1 to any score (equating to the Mountain Dwarf's +1 to STR, Hill Dwarf's +1 to CON, High Elf's +1 to INT and Lightfoot Halfling's +1 to DEX)... PLUS they get a +1 to ALL SIX SCORES on top of that.

This was figured out using the Elite array (15,14,13,12,10,8), and putting in the pluses for race as well as the +1 for class (Fighter STR / Rogue DEX / Cleric WIS / Wizard INT).

Those +1s across the board for Humans are actually interesting, because they basically become +1 bonuses to saves, +1 bonuses to skills, etc.

 

[DogBackward]

Those +1s across the board for Humans are actually interesting, because they basically become +1 bonuses to saves, +1 bonuses to skills, etc.

Well, that's not quite true. It takes +2 to become an automatic +1 to a save or skill. Otherwise, it's only +1 to these things about 50% of the time. Though, obviously, every human player will only buy odd stats once we get our point-buy rules.

And actually, I'm starting to think that humans get +1 to everything, then +1 to whatever their class gets a bonus to. That makes sense, that humans are good at everything, but even better at what they specialize in.

 

[Mark CMG]

Turnips, grains, the occasional Halfl-


Sorry. Thought you asked, "So what exactly are "Humans" going to eat?"

 

[El Mahdi]

...I wonder what you get for being a human?

In Dune, this means you get to live.


In D&D, I'm not sure what it gets you.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

Humans apparently get a +1 to any score (equating to the Mountain Dwarf's +1 to STR, Hill Dwarf's +1 to CON, High Elf's +1 to INT and Lightfoot Halfling's +1 to DEX)... PLUS they get a +1 to ALL SIX SCORES on top of that.

If that's true, that's interesting, though I'm concerned about the fact they're bringing back odd bonuses-- unless there's some kind of automatic stat inflation for levels, which the playtest materials seem to be suggesting there isn't.

 

[Grazzt]

If that's true, that's interesting, though I'm concerned about the fact they're bringing back odd bonuses-- unless there's some kind of automatic stat inflation for levels, which the playtest materials seem to be suggesting there isn't.

One of the old articles on WotC's site mentioned +1 from race and +1 from class, so there's the even bonus (if they still follow that train of thought/design).