The return of the Male Human Fighter!

[Salamandyr]

Here's what I want in my 5e...heroic depiction of male human warriors! No more of this 900 iterations of Regdar being killed because the designers didn't think dwarves got enough screen time.

Let's retire that. I want Conan, I want D'Artagnon, I want Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, I want Roy!

 

[Gort]

I want copyrighted thing, copyrighted thing and copyrighted thing!

 

[mudbunny]

Why were there so many pieces of art with Regnar dyng??

Because originally, the designers wanted Regnar to be black, but someone higher up said he had to be Caucasian. So, in revenge, they had him dying in all of his art.

 

[Dausuul]

Screw that. I want to see the return of the female human fighter. Bring back Morgan Ironwolf*!

[SIZE=-2]*Preferably without the Nipples of Armor Piercing, however.
[/SIZE]

 

[Wormwood]

Because originally, the designers wanted Regnar to be black, but someone higher up said he had to be Caucasian. So, in revenge, they had him dying in all of his art.

I don't know if it's true, but I *want* it to be true.

 

[Salamandyr]

He can be any ethnicity they want, just as long as he's human, wielding a sword, and kicking butt.

 

[Nagol]

I want copyrighted thing, copyrighted thing and copyrighted thing!

D'Artagnon is public domain.

Depictions of Conan (not all, but probably most) are public domain.

 

[Salamandyr]

I wondered what Gort was getting at. I guess he was just taking me a little too literally.

For the record, I did not mean I wanted Conan, or D'Artagnan, etc specifically, but I want fantasy art that evokes those characters. I want brooding barbarians, gallant swashbucklers, lovable rogues, brave warriors leading their party.

Not Regdar.

(Morgan Ironwolf on the other hand, I can totally support).

 

[Wormwood]

IFor the record, I did not mean I wanted Conan, or D'Artagnan, etc specifically, but I want fantasy art that evokes those characters. I want brooding barbarians, gallant swashbucklers, lovable rogues, brave warriors leading their party.

And any of these could be dragonborn, dwarven, elf or [new D&D race].

Even Morgan Ironwolf.

 

[KidSnide]

I'm not sure I care about male fighters, but I would like to see the return of human centered gaming. I like having demi-humans (including tieflings and dragonborn) in my game world, but I think that humans of various cultures are more interesting and more accessible than any fantasy race that WotC has been able to develop.

Making humans 2nd best in every niche is nice for flexibility, but it generates too many menagerie-like parties where every character is of a different race. That's an ok way to play the game, but it should dominate less than it does. If humans typically made up half the party, it would encourage more interest in national and social identify (instead of just racial identify) among human characters and make the racial identify of the remaining characters more distinct because it would be compared to an understandable baseline.

I hope 5e has more humans.

-KS