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<blockquote data-quote="Psikonetic" data-source="post: 1770601" data-attributes="member: 10346">Because that's how evolution works? Over generations you'll start to be different then your parent race, not just in terms of culture (i.e. granting access to certain skills/feats) but physcially over time too, allowing you to have certain special abilities, etc. that another subrace doesn't have.I think the real real question is why don't humans have subraces. Okay, maybe I can see why, Wizards wants to remain PC and you know that if you create even a fantasy human race with different traits than another, someone will trace it to a real type of people and scream that you're being racist. But it does make sense. If you take your &quot;average&quot; Italian, African, and Japanese man and line them up, they're gonna have different traits, not just be skilled in different things but be physcially different. I actually find it funny that the PHB says that even if all the humans come from one area they have widly different hair, eye, and skin colors, yet the same attributes, that's not really how it works. Even the companies and books that make an effort to make the human culutures &quot;different&quot; only offer different skills or feats. Why wouldn't they manifest different abilites that could factor into increased/decreased attributes, or other abilities? After all, you banish some humans to the Underdark and then they get all kinds of special powers, right <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />~Me</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psikonetic, post: 1770601, member: 10346"] Because that's how evolution works? Over generations you'll start to be different then your parent race, not just in terms of culture (i.e. granting access to certain skills/feats) but physcially over time too, allowing you to have certain special abilities, etc. that another subrace doesn't have. I think the [I]real[/I] real question is why don't humans have subraces. Okay, maybe I can see why, Wizards wants to remain PC and you know that if you create even a fantasy human race with different traits than another, someone will trace it to a real type of people and scream that you're being racist. But it does make sense. If you take your "average" Italian, African, and Japanese man and line them up, they're gonna have different traits, not just be skilled in different things but be physcially different. I actually find it funny that the PHB says that even if all the humans come from one area they have widly different hair, eye, and skin colors, yet the same attributes, that's not really how it works. Even the companies and books that make an effort to make the human culutures "different" only offer different skills or feats. Why wouldn't they manifest different abilites that could factor into increased/decreased attributes, or other abilities? After all, you banish some humans to the Underdark and then they get all kinds of special powers, right ;) ~Me [/QUOTE]

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