So I am eagerly working to construct a campaign setting that is solely humans as the playable race. The inspiration for this setting is the early Iron Age, late Bronze age and I am going for that ancient world feel, so things like a halfling, dwarf or an elf would be a extremely rare mythic being one might encounter but not actually a playable race.
Basically all the players, NPC's ect will be human of various sorts.
So far I want to use the baseline human racial traits already in the pathfinder rules, but instead of two traits you get three, the third having to be specific to your characters country of origin or place one was raised and plausible a few alternative traits such as being born with dwarfism (Like real world dwarves) and being small sized by sacrificing say ones bonus feat at first level. Also one can gain bloodlines similar to the ones in unearthed arcana or a sorcerers bloodlines, granting one special abilities, but these come at the cost of ones second starting feat. (Unless one is a sorcerer, then one gets the bloodline that comes with the class, and their second starting feat).
I am just wondering if this sounds balanced or if I am going about this all wrong and making the players too powerful right out of the gate.
Traits don't make much of a difference. As for the bloodlines, yeah, try explaining the supernatural parts with "a human did it" somehow.
On a less helpful note, I'd never play this kind of setting myself.
Traits don't make much of a difference. As for the bloodlines, yeah, try explaining the supernatural parts with "a human did it" somehow.
On a less helpful note, I'd never play this kind of setting myself.
Well in the case of bloodlines it is intended for a character who is essentially someone with a bloodline intermingled with something like a dragon, demon, Fey spirit, or simply a bloodline blessed by a God, or even one with whom a God is a direct parent or ancestor. Or maybe your parent is a vampire or was bitten by one.
Yeah, human only gets a mixed reaction. In my area I've got a couple players excited to try it, but we also have other DM's who provide the more High Fantasy worlds. I've always been a Conan the Barbarian fan. :]