Human

[William Alexander Von'Dire]

An endangered species, not seen very often in the realms of existence, humans are the most versatile race as far as looks, classes, and alignments. Though they also have the least resistance, and live the shortest lives.

An advantage humans have is their willingness to accept a diversity in climate. Most demi-humans have very definite preferences for where they live, such as forest, mountains, deserts, the underdark, sea coasts, rivers or lakes, tropical areas, arctic conditions, etc. Most demi-human races will live in only one such area, never any other. Individual demi-humans may come and go, but as a race, they tend toward very limited regions. A few demi-human races may live in several areas. But only one race, Humans, makes their home in any of these places, and this provides them with a unique cultural advantage.

Humans span the entire globe, will go anywhere, will do anything, and must, therefore, interact with nearly anyone and might learn almost anything. Yet, despite this, these widely spread human communities freely stay in contact and trade with one another, sharing many skills that first developed out of necessity for a particular climate, but later found applications elsewhere as these innovations propagated from human culture to human culture via their trade routes. This is a huge cultural advantage.

However, even though this is a characteristic of human cultures, it is not racial. This is a cultural oddity. And still other factors come into play. The human life span is comparatively short, so they are exposed to many things while younger and when their learning curve is high. They may learn many things while young, and since they are human, other humans make these things freely available to them.

Conversely, a demi-human growing up in a human culture may or may not get these things. If they are short-lived, like humans, they will get some due to quicker learning as 'young adults.' But they will not get all if they grow up in a human culture since their access is limited by feelings of racism and distrust. And if they are long-lived, most of this time is spent in a childlike state (not one of impending adulthood where the desire to learn quickly and join the ranks of the adult world are high). And the racist feelings still limit their access, though not completely.

Humans come in a variety of skin colors, eye colors, hair colors (whatever you can find on earth).

They stand from 4.5 to 7 feet tall, but typically range from 5 to 6.5 feet and generally weigh 125 to 250 pounds, the men a bit taller and heavier than woman, on average. They reach maturity in a short 15 years and typically live between 60 and 80 years, but sometimes they may reach as much as 110 or more.