So we're ready to hunt us some dragon, fight off the undead, and soon we'll be equipped for giants. That's all good, but let me ask you something.
Karzoug, Arazni, Baba Yaga, Tar-Baphon.
What do these and many other powerful figures have in common? They are humans. They may command legions of other monsters, but humans always show up in any villainous scheme. From the head of a local thieves guild to the evil arch mage you've been hunting, the odds are they either are or at least employed humans.
And it's not just evil humans that are a problem. Those of us trying to make an honest living as thieves have to deal with human guards and leaders. Any ratfolk will tell you the old saying "Wherever there's food, there's bound to be humans." What we need is a set of tools to fight back Golarion's most widespread pest.
Racist rant aside, what kind of things would you like to see in this book, should it ever exist? Would you like to see it at all?
I personally want to see a ranger archetype specialized in killing humans (or maybe humanoids), poisons that are exclusively harmful to humans (again maybe against other races too), and maybe some information on how other races feel about and deal with human "infestations."
Neither Arazni nor Tar Baphon are human any longer. They have both been undead far longer than either's mortal lifespan.
Two of those aren't humans, Arazni and Tar-Baphon are undead.
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A book about PC-engineered homicide will definitely help with the problem of the murder hobo cliché.
Two of those aren't humans, Arazni and Tar-Baphon are undead.
Of the seven core races, humans have the second shortest lifespan. Becoming undead is one way to extend that lifespan. Any book about slaying humans has to cover their propensity for turning themselves into undead.
Baba Yaga is also not human but a Hag.
Too bad there's too much pro-human bias for this book to ever exist.
Too bad there's too much pro-human bias for this book to ever exist.
I don't think that would be the issue with the book. Humans have no particular strengths or weaknesses. There are no specific tactics against them, all the usual things work just fine. You don't need to stab a human in the heart with a sanctified silver stake while you burn the dirt of his homeland in the bathroom of his lover. You can just stab them with any old pointy thing. If you want a handbook on how to kill humans, just read the CRB.
Baba Yaga is also not human but a Hag.
There is one particular weakness that humans have compared to the majority of other races: They can't see in the dark.
Almost every monster and other playable race has low-light vision, darkvision or something even better, like constant detect SLAs, blindsense/sight, tremorsense, scent etc.