The Essentials Human (wild mass guessing)

[renau1g]

All Humans get free Magic Missile (revised).

This would be great. Next time a massive dragon is threatening the town, everyone joins hands and fires their magic missiles at the enemy. Even a few points of damage from each person x 100 people = dead monsters. Heck, even orc armies would bow before the human dominance!

 

[Njall]

Frankly, I doubt we'll see a full rewrite. More likely, humans will just gain the aforementioned encounter power and will be able to choose a second stance/trick/whatever from their class.
Just my 2 cents, anyway...

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

For all we know this new human racial power is granted by a racial feat too. It doesn't require anything actually new.

I still say though that adding flex stats to all the existing races that don't have them now doesn't really make sense. The existing racial feats in many cases are balanced against existing fixed stat bonuses. Nobody has yet convinced me that a +2 STR dwarf etc is a good idea.

 

[Njall]

For all we know this new human racial power is granted by a racial feat too. It doesn't require anything actually new.

I still say though that adding flex stats to all the existing races that don't have them now doesn't really make sense. The existing racial feats in many cases are balanced against existing fixed stat bonuses. Nobody has yet convinced me that a +2 STR dwarf etc is a good idea.

Well, I suppose that, on the other hand, nobody has yet convinced the designers that it's a bad idea, so...

Anyway, why don't you start convincing us that it's a bad idea?
I get the general point, but do you have any specific racial feat in mind?

 

[Nifft]

This would be great. Next time a massive dragon is threatening the town, everyone joins hands and fires their magic missiles at the enemy. Even a few points of damage from each person x 100 people = dead monsters. Heck, even orc armies would bow before the human dominance!

In the coming ages, warfare changed. It became paramount to be able to defend from Human Zergling Rush, either killing them before they got within 20 squares of you, or making sure you couldn't be targeted by ranged effects.

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Actually you could pretty much do this right now with 4e's half-elves. Imagine a community where every citizen can cast Magic Missile once every 5 minutes. It would be fairly safe, so long as they weren't too quick in dispensing "mob justice".

Cheers, -- N

 

[TarionzCousin]

All Humans get free Magic Missile (revised).

I have been trying and failing to cast Magic Missle for several hours now. Am I not Human?!?

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I have been trying and failing to cast Magic Missle for several hours now. Am I not Human?!?

No

 

[Nifft]

I have been trying and failing to cast Magic Missle for several hours now. Am I not Human?!?

Essentially... no.

Check for a 3rd at-will power, though. Maybe you're a 4.0e human.

Or perhaps you're from an earlier edition. If you're a 3.x human, you will have been born with two feat.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Garthanos]

This would be great. Next time a massive dragon is threatening the town, everyone joins hands and fires their magic missiles at the enemy. Even a few points of damage from each person x 100 people = dead monsters. Heck, even orc armies would bow before the human dominance!

If the town was full of human heros.... I think that would be a valid tactic... bowing down and kissing there backsides good bye. NPCs is NPCs, Heros is Heros.

 

[FireLance]

The speculation on the human just got new fuel. It could be that erf_beto was right on the money, and they get a racial power!

I personally think that humans can choose the racial power in place of a third at-will attack power. It will solve the problems of humans belonging to a class with no at-will attack powers quite neatly.