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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8700537" data-attributes="member: 907">A couple of reasons:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Humans are the default, the ones against which the other races are measured.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Humans tend to get very flexible features. Variant humans get +1 to any two stats as well as their choice of both a skill and a feat. This represents human overall flexibility.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Any attempt to say &quot;humans from X are Y&quot; comes close to some really ugly real-world implications.</li>
</ul>That said, I liked the ideas behind the setup of regional feats in 3.5e Forgotten Realms. Basically, your region of origin would give you access to some additional feats to represent overall cultural tendencies. At least to my privileged eyes, I think they avoided the brunt of the third point above by:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Offering multiple feats per region, usually 3-5. So it's not &quot;Everyone from Sembia has the Silver Palm feat making them good at dealmaking&quot;, it's &quot;some people from Sembia have Silver Palm&quot;.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Feats show up in multiple regions. Silver Palm, for example, can be taken by humans from Amn, the Dragon Coast, the Golden Water, Sembia, Tharsult, Thesk, the Vilhon Reach, and Waterdeep (as well as assorted dwarves and halflings). So you can't be sure someone's from Sembia because they have Silver Palm.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many (but not all) of the feats were kind of on the weak side and had to be taken at level 1, so they were often ignored.</li>
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[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8700537, member: 907"] A couple of reasons: [LIST] [*]Humans are the default, the ones against which the other races are measured. [*]Humans tend to get very flexible features. Variant humans get +1 to any two stats as well as their choice of both a skill and a feat. This represents human overall flexibility. [*]Any attempt to say "humans from X are Y" comes close to some really ugly real-world implications. [/LIST] That said, I liked the ideas behind the setup of regional feats in 3.5e Forgotten Realms. Basically, your region of origin would give you access to some additional feats to represent overall cultural tendencies. At least to my privileged eyes, I think they avoided the brunt of the third point above by: [LIST] [*]Offering multiple feats per region, usually 3-5. So it's not "Everyone from Sembia has the Silver Palm feat making them good at dealmaking", it's "[B]some[/B] people from Sembia have Silver Palm". [*]Feats show up in multiple regions. Silver Palm, for example, can be taken by humans from Amn, the Dragon Coast, the Golden Water, Sembia, Tharsult, Thesk, the Vilhon Reach, and Waterdeep (as well as assorted dwarves and halflings). So you can't be sure someone's from Sembia because they have Silver Palm. [*]Many (but not all) of the feats were kind of on the weak side and had to be taken at level 1, so they were often ignored. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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