steeldragons
Steeliest of the dragons
But why should humans be the baseline rather than Dwarfs or Orcs?
<squints to make sure he read this right> Uhhhhhmmmm....because we're humans. In the real world. It is what we know. It is the obvious place to begin.
<eyebrow raise> It's not "author bias." Humans are, quite literally, basic to reality.Other than author bias what is it that makes Humans so basic to reality that every species in the multiverse must be based on them?
I don't think "every species in the multiverse" should be based upon them. But we're talking about Player Character options here. Clearly, the bipedal "humanoid/demi-human" forms are what we know and have to work with.
For that...there is literally no place to begin than with what we are...a.k.a., and unfortunately, human.