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The World of Greyhawk has a great variety of humans, and I feel representing this with game effects suits the genre. | The World of Greyhawk has a great variety of humans, and I feel representing this with game effects suits the genre. | ||
Greyhawk is also a humanocentric world, and I have improved humans to the point where they are intended to be the most powerful race. | Greyhawk is also a humanocentric world, and I have improved humans to the point where they are intended to be the most powerful race. | ||
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| − | + | For compatibility with Roll20, humans still come in standard and variant, with additional benefits as outlined here. | |
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| − | + | All humans get to pick an ethnicity and gain the bonus listed for that ethnicity, which is +1 to one ability (this stacks with other human ability bonuses), one language, and one skill or proficiency, as listed for each ethnicity. | |
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| + | === Standard Human === | ||
| + | The standard human gains one skill proficiency of choice. | ||
| + | This is in addition to that gained from ethnicity. | ||
=== Common === | === Common === | ||
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* Apply a +1 ability bonus to any ability score. | * Apply a +1 ability bonus to any ability score. | ||
* You know one additional living ethnic [[Languages_(Greyhawk)#Human_Languages|human language]]. | * You know one additional living ethnic [[Languages_(Greyhawk)#Human_Languages|human language]]. | ||
| − | * Choose any | + | * Choose any one proficienciy among weapons, skills, tools, vehicles, or languages. |
=== Baklunish === | === Baklunish === | ||
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* Apply a +1 ability bonus to Constitution, Intelligence, or Wisdom. | * Apply a +1 ability bonus to Constitution, Intelligence, or Wisdom. | ||
* You know your ethnic language, Baklunish | * You know your ethnic language, Baklunish | ||
| − | * You have proficiency with with | + | * You have proficiency with with one of [[Weapons_(5A)#Composite_Bow|composite bow]], Animal Handling, History, Religion, Survival, a gambling set, or navigator's tools. |
=== Flan === | === Flan === | ||
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* Apply a +1 ability bonus to Dexterity, Constitution, or Wisdom. | * Apply a +1 ability bonus to Dexterity, Constitution, or Wisdom. | ||
* You gain proficiency with your ethnic language (Flan). | * You gain proficiency with your ethnic language (Flan). | ||
| − | * You have proficiency in | + | * You have proficiency in one of the following: Athletics, Animal Handling, Nature, Perception, Religion, Stealth, or Survival |
=== Oerdian === | === Oerdian === | ||
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* Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strength, Wisdom, or Charisma. | * Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strength, Wisdom, or Charisma. | ||
* You know your ethnic language, Oerdian | * You know your ethnic language, Oerdian | ||
| − | * You gain proficiency with | + | * You gain proficiency with one of the following: any one weapon, Animal Handling, Athletics, History, Persuasion, or Religion. |
=== Olman === | === Olman === | ||
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* Apply a +1 ability bonus to Constitution, Wisdom, or Charisma. | * Apply a +1 ability bonus to Constitution, Wisdom, or Charisma. | ||
* You know your ethnic language, Amedi. | * You know your ethnic language, Amedi. | ||
| − | * You gain proficiency with | + | * You gain proficiency with one of the following: Acrobatics, Arcana, Athletics, Intimidate, Religion, Survival, or Olman. Olman is a dead language, but isolated tribes deep in the Amedio jungle may still speak it. |
=== Paynim === | === Paynim === | ||
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* Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. | * Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. | ||
* You know your ethnic language, Ordai. | * You know your ethnic language, Ordai. | ||
| − | * You gain proficiency with | + | * You gain proficiency with one of the following: the [[Weapons_(5A)#Composite_Bow|composite bow]], Animal Handling, Investigation, Nature, Perception, or Survival. |
=== Rhenne === | === Rhenne === | ||
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* Apply a +1 ability bonus to Dexterity, Intelligence, or Charisma. | * Apply a +1 ability bonus to Dexterity, Intelligence, or Charisma. | ||
* You know your ethnic language, Rhopan. | * You know your ethnic language, Rhopan. | ||
| − | * You gain proficiency with | + | * You gain proficiency with one of the following: Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Arcana, Performance, Sleight of Hand, one type of vehicles, or one living language. |
=== Suel === | === Suel === | ||
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:*Lendorian is spoken on the isles of the South-east. | :*Lendorian is spoken on the isles of the South-east. | ||
:*Suel is mostly a dead language but spoken by the elite in the successor states to the Scarlet Brotherhood. Commoners in this area speak Lendorian. To learn original Suel, you have to pick it as one of your two proficiencies. | :*Suel is mostly a dead language but spoken by the elite in the successor states to the Scarlet Brotherhood. Commoners in this area speak Lendorian. To learn original Suel, you have to pick it as one of your two proficiencies. | ||
| − | * You gain proficiency with | + | * You gain proficiency with one of the following: Acrobatics, History, Intimidation, Suel (ancient language), water vehicles, or proficiency with a melee weapon of your choice. |
=== Tuov === | === Tuov === | ||
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* Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strength, Constitution, or Intelligence. | * Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strength, Constitution, or Intelligence. | ||
* You know your ethnic language, Tuov. | * You know your ethnic language, Tuov. | ||
| − | * You gain proficiency with | + | * You gain proficiency with one of the following: Athletics, History, Nature, Perception, Persuasion, Stealth, or Survival. |
Revision as of 11:59, 13 August 2022
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Humans are the dominant species in the Flanaess and much of the rest of the world. They are suitable as player characters, tough some ethnicity might be seen as odd outside their regional origin.
Racial Description Page
This page is about a fantasy race from my version of the World of Greyhawk.
- 5A race pages: Humans—Demi-Humans—Exotics.
General Rules
The optional racial modifiers from Tasha's are not used. See Character Creation for what we use instead.
Races with names in italics are generally not suitable to most campaigns, but can fit excellently in some specific setting.
Humans of the Flanaess and Beyond
The World of Greyhawk has a great variety of humans, and I feel representing this with game effects suits the genre. Greyhawk is also a humanocentric world, and I have improved humans to the point where they are intended to be the most powerful race.
For compatibility with Roll20, humans still come in standard and variant, with additional benefits as outlined here.
All humans get to pick an ethnicity and gain the bonus listed for that ethnicity, which is +1 to one ability (this stacks with other human ability bonuses), one language, and one skill or proficiency, as listed for each ethnicity.
Standard Human
The standard human gains one skill proficiency of choice. This is in addition to that gained from ethnicity.
Common
Common or cosmopolitan humans are the most versatile humans. They dominate the central and south-western parts of the Flanaess. A common human usually has their roots in another human ancestry, but have been assimilated into the expanding cosmopolitan culture of the central Flanaess.
Only choose another ethnicity if it fits your concept, not for optimization reasons—there really aren't any.
- Apply a +1 ability bonus to any ability score.
- You know one additional living ethnic human language.
- Choose any one proficienciy among weapons, skills, tools, vehicles, or languages.
Baklunish
Baklunish are somewhat like the Persians of Earth. They live in civilized kingdoms in the north-west of the Flanaess.
- Apply a +1 ability bonus to Constitution, Intelligence, or Wisdom.
- You know your ethnic language, Baklunish
- You have proficiency with with one of composite bow, Animal Handling, History, Religion, Survival, a gambling set, or navigator's tools.
Flan
The flan are the eponymous first humans of the Flanaess. They are mostly hunter-gatherers and have been pushed into remote backwaters or been assimilated by later waves of human immigration. Mixed Flan are the most common ancestry for Cosmopolitan humans. Civilized flan resemble east Europeans in culture.
- Apply a +1 ability bonus to Dexterity, Constitution, or Wisdom.
- You gain proficiency with your ethnic language (Flan).
- You have proficiency in one of the following: Athletics, Animal Handling, Nature, Perception, Religion, Stealth, or Survival
Oerdian
Oerdians were the dominant ethnicity in the Flanaess for a very long time, and are still dominant in the eastern part. Their culture resembles medieval west European.
- Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strength, Wisdom, or Charisma.
- You know your ethnic language, Oerdian
- You gain proficiency with one of the following: any one weapon, Animal Handling, Athletics, History, Persuasion, or Religion.
Olman
Mesoamerican in look and culture, the Olman are in a cultural slump. They live south-west of the Flanaess, but do not dominate these areas.
- Apply a +1 ability bonus to Constitution, Wisdom, or Charisma.
- You know your ethnic language, Amedi.
- You gain proficiency with one of the following: Acrobatics, Arcana, Athletics, Intimidate, Religion, Survival, or Olman. Olman is a dead language, but isolated tribes deep in the Amedio jungle may still speak it.
Paynim
Similar to the Mongols of Earth, Paynim are horse nomads and live on the plains in the north of the Flanaess and also in the far north-west, outside the Flanaess.
- Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.
- You know your ethnic language, Ordai.
- You gain proficiency with one of the following: the composite bow, Animal Handling, Investigation, Nature, Perception, or Survival.
Rhenne
Superficially similar to the Roma of Earth, Rhenne live as nomads on barges and in caravans, mainly in the Central Flanaess.
- Apply a +1 ability bonus to Dexterity, Intelligence, or Charisma.
- You know your ethnic language, Rhopan.
- You gain proficiency with one of the following: Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Arcana, Performance, Sleight of Hand, one type of vehicles, or one living language.
Suel
The blonde hollywood villains of Greyhawk, the Suel once had a great empire destroyed in a magical holocaust. Splintered and defeated, they now live on the rim of the continent but maintain their pride.
- Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strenth, Intelligence, or Charisma.
- You know your ethnic language, one of Amedi, Cold Tounge, or Lendorian.
- Amedi is spoken in the Amedi jungles.
- Cold Tongue is spoken in the barbarian north-east.
- Lendorian is spoken on the isles of the South-east.
- Suel is mostly a dead language but spoken by the elite in the successor states to the Scarlet Brotherhood. Commoners in this area speak Lendorian. To learn original Suel, you have to pick it as one of your two proficiencies.
- You gain proficiency with one of the following: Acrobatics, History, Intimidation, Suel (ancient language), water vehicles, or proficiency with a melee weapon of your choice.
Tuov
A black people from the continent of Hepmonaland to the south-east of the Flanaess.
- Apply a +1 ability bonus to Strength, Constitution, or Intelligence.
- You know your ethnic language, Tuov.
- You gain proficiency with one of the following: Athletics, History, Nature, Perception, Persuasion, Stealth, or Survival.