The Humans
Maximum Ablilty Scores-
125
Most humans are the ancestors of pioneers, conquerors, traders, travalers, refugees, and other people - physically, culturally, religiously, and politically. Hardy or fine, light skinned or dark, showy or austere, primitive or civilized, devout or impious, humans run the gamut.
Personality:
Humans are the most adaptable, flexible, and ambitious people among the common races. Thay are diverse in their tastes, morals, customs, and habits. Others accuse them of having little respect for history, but its only natural that humans with their relatively short life spans and constantly changing cultures, would have a shorter collective memory than dwarves, elves, gnomes, and halflings.
Physical Description:
Humans typically stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds, with men noticeably taller and heavier than women. Thanks to their penchant for migration and conquest, and to their short generations, humans are more physically diverse than other common races, with skin shades that run from nearly black to very pale, hair from black to blond, and facial hair (for men) from sparse to thick. Plenty of humans have a dash of nonhuman blood, and they may demonstrate hints of elven, orc, or other lineages. Humans are often ostentacious or unorthodox in their grooming and dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, body piercings, and the like. Humans have short life spans, achieving majority at about 15 and rarely living even a single century.
Relations:
Just as readily as they mix with each other, humans mix with members of other races. Among other races, humans are known as "everyones second-best friends." They serve as ambassadors, diplomats, magistrates, merchants, and functionaries of all kinds.
Language:
Humans speak Common. They typically learn other languages, including obscure ones, and they are fond of sprinkling their speech with words borrowed from other tongues.
Adventurers:
Human adventurers are the most audcious, daring, and ambitious members of an audacious, daring, and ambitious race. A human can earn glory in the eyes of his or her fellows by amassing power, wealth, and fame. Humans, more than other people, champion causes rather than territories or groups.
