Homebrew Alternate Humans Species Details

In the reckonings of most worlds, humans are the youngest of the common races, late to arrive on the world scene and short- lived in comparison to dwarves, elves, and dragons. Perhaps it is because of their shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that's why they build their mighty empires on the foundations of conquest and trade. Whatever drives them, humans are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of the worlds.

A Broad Spectrum

With their penchant for migration and conquest, humans are more physically diverse than other common races. There is no typical human. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds. Human skin shades rage from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of elf, orc or other lineages. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century.

Variety in all Things

Humans are the most adaptable and ambitious people among the common races. They have widely varying tastes, morals, and customs in the many different lands where they have settled. When they settle, though, they stay: they build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span, but a human nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human's memory. They live fully in the present-making them well suited to the adventuring life-but also plan for the future, striving to leave a lasting legacy. Individually and as a group, humans are adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.

Alternate Humans Traits

The following options allows you to create a human based on their environment, making him less generic than the human race of the Player's Handbook.

Ability Score Increase

Increase an ability score of your choice by 1. You cannot increase the same ability score given by the subrace you choose.

Age

Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.

Alignment

Humans do not tend towards any particular alignment as a group. The interplay of their ambition and empathy sees all alignments represented among them.

Size

Humans vary wildly in size and shape from under five feet to well over six feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 ft.

Languages

You can speak, read and write Common and one other language of your choice.

Subrace

Humans are divided by the environment where they live: desertborn, forestborn, mountainborn, plainsborn, seaborn and winterborn.