Why are there almost no humans in your setting/tg/?

Why are there almost no humans in your setting/tg/?

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There are plenty of humans in the settings I usually run. I can see the appeal of doing a no humie setting, but generally I like to have humans there just so that if someone wants to be a normie, they can play them.

Humans are an endangered species, slowly rising from their peril under the guidance of the non-human races. They are treated not quite like equals, almost more like how we treat endangered animals in our own reality.

Long ago, humans were a numerous and powerful race, but they were very foolish and closed-minded. When they emerged from their isolated home, their first response was to attack the numerous inhuman monstrosities that plagued the world in their eyes.

They however either did not know, or did not care of the sapience of these other beings, and attacked each and every one of them indiscriminately. This would turn out to be a mistake, as these creatures formerly at war with one another, were now given a threat they could unify and retaliate against. They did so, overwhelmingly, and almost wiped the humans away entirely.

Dunno

There are just as many humans as there are members of any other race. However, after the cataclysm that broke the world, all the races sharply declined in number as entire nations burned away.

Make shit up. If you aren't going to contribute, don't post.

Humans are the de facto wizard race, any human can become a wizard.

And wizards that don't get them self killed tend to end up nasty.
Makes courtship hard, assuming they even stay fertile.

On the other hand, plenty of subhuman strains are the progeny ex-wizards.

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>Most endangered species start recovering
What a lark. The "man-made chemicals [that] only disappear after 200,000 years" say otherwise.
Especially all the water soluble pesticides. As it happens, bacteria poison is everything poison.

And only the nuclear waste from Plutonium reactors stays bad for ages.
Thorium reactor waste is safe after 400 years.

Landfills aren't decaying ever, incidentally. The pressure kills all the bacteria.
The landfills will last until they, and all the nearby ground, get subducted.
If civilization ever does start over, future archeologists will have a real fun time.
You can even read a lot of the stuff in landfills (40% paper by volume, by the way).


Plastics degrading also deserves some attention, since that /will/ be decay.
The timestamp of the is the estimate for when bacteria that can eat plastic will evolve.

I think it means "start" as in "are no longer being hit by cars".

>Landfills aren't decaying ever, incidentally. The pressure kills all the bacteria.
>The landfills will last until they, and all the nearby ground, get subducted.
CItation? I've never heard this before.

The humans used to be by far the most prosperous and without a doubt were the dominant species on the planet, controlling vast swathes of the land. As they progressed technologically they grew bored of waging war with the other species as it was honestly kind of boring and way too easy for them. So, they fully embraced corporatism under an authoritarian regime and saw great prosperity, their technology progressing to the level where they were practically gods. They were planning on leaving behind the planet, having their species live on a gigantic spaceship that orbited the planet where they would live until the spaceship was deemed 100% complete and then they would begin their quest to start their life as a spacefaring civilization. The only human settlements on in the entire world were mining facilities which left massive caverns in the earth. The thing is, the humans didn't want to leave their planet with the same old boring species and decided to experiment a bit with it with the thought that if they ever returned the dominant species on the planet would be deemed worthy to join them. So they created all manners of humanoid sentient races: Crabmen, the various insect kingdoms, the slothmen, uplifting mammoths and forcing them to coexist with the snow elves, highly intelligent octopi, and most importantly for the topic of this thread: The skaven.

The skaven, unlike the other races were never meant to become a serious contender for the title of dominant race on the planet, instead being subjected to a shitty life tending the massive winding maze of nuclear reactors that powered the Human's ship. They were rather good at this task, having a natural resistance to radiation as well as being highly disposable, only being intelligent enough for the menial tasks they were given. Until, one became really fucking smart due to magic working in a 40k ork "If enough people say you're smart you are" fashion. Pissed about the situation his people were in he led a rebellion against the humans, causing the human's ship to explode, splitting into three parts. The rear section of the ship crashed on the northwestern corner of the world's massive supercontinent, which housed the nuclear reactor. This, as is to be expected turned the entirety of that area into a nuclear wasteland which is now inhabited by the skaven empire. The middle portion of the ship, where most of the actual humans lived, orbits around the planet serving as a second moon. The last portion, housing the various corporations and factories of the ship crashed in the southeastern portion of the supercontinent. Cyberpunk style sexbots and rogue AI now roam this area of the world. There are a few humans, mainly a few who managed to launch escape pods before the explosion but it's been a few hundred years since this event occurred and with their already reduced population nowadays there's only around a thousand or so left on the entire planet

The field of Garbology is dedicated to this sort of thing.
You mostly hear about it in relation to archeology, but IIRC it's a subfield of anthropology?

Not that user, but I remember seeing an exhibit at museum once. They'd done a core sample of a landfill down to the 1940's or further. All of the paper from the 50's that had been in it was more or less intact. I think they'd said it was a combination of pressure and lack of oxygen.

Source on OP's image?

Looks interesting, but reverse search is giving me squat.

>40% paper by volume
41%, actually.

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more like 'why there are almost no nonhumans in my setting'
the answer, of course, is
because humans are better at magic.

transhumanism and lack of sense of right and wrong

What bullshit.

Cause it's on an alien planet that hasn't reached interstellar travel tech yet. The natives don't even have atom bombs!

Humans are one of the majority-minority races of the world, mostly background noise with the others. Their known strength is just a basic preference for many climates, so a handful of humans almost always end up among a lot of other cultures.

Too many immigrants.

Everyone is a human. They just don't all look like it because they went all World of Twelve.

They're stuck in a perpetual dark age because the Dark Elf secret-police gestapo that works for the highly civilized High Elves goes around culling natural born magic users while making sure the humans stay at the level of civilization that they are

7/8ths of humanity mutated into other "species" with the advent of the goddess. It nearly caused the fall of civilization which was her goal. A lucky few gathered their resources and fought her and finally put her in her place, though the changes were permanent.

All sentient races in my setting were once human. Humans are wanderers, explorers, and conquerers by design, and whenever a group of people settle down, they begin to change. Humans withdrew to the mountain tunnels and became the dwarves, Human tribes stayed behind to battle in the jungles as the Gnomes and Half-Giants, and violent beasts of men recluded to the south to become the Satyrs.
Except the bug people. They were a designated enemy for the human race that the Gods forgot to pit against humanity, so no one knows about them and they both just do their own thing.

They're the long gone gods of the setting

Humans decided to remove all the other races, got their shit pushed in instead.

What nha is that from?

I guess it's not really Veeky Forums but I'll bump anyway.

There's only 16 humans in my setting at any one time. The world was purpose built as an arena for various gods to test their chosen champions against one another.

Some of the old contestants are still around, but they haven't been human for a long time.

>I think they'd said it was a combination of pressure and lack of oxygen.
Probably not the pressure as bacteria do fine on the ocean floor and under solid rock, but low oxygen content kills most decomposing bacteria. Not all if them, but the ones that don't need oxygen are far more ineffective so organic matter can survive for millenia in oxygen-poor conditions (see all those swamp-mummies which have been preserved due to being buried in low-oxygen bogs).

Modern landfills for organic waste are designed in such a way that the waste can compost, though, so you can actually get rid of the stuff and also produce natural gas that can be used to generate power.

Actually, humans in my setting are sort of prominent almost anywhere, due a 'parasitic' adaptability. They develop in various places, find some races they can work with in a way or another, learn from them in techniques, methods of government, crafts and such, and milk what they learned for all its worth.

>gm crops disappear
more like interbreed with natural plants and now everything is slightly modified.
on top of that if something has such a long half-life that it stays radioactive for 2 million years then it isn't enough radiation for you to worry about. hippies are retarded.

Somali to Mori no Kami-sama

About a Forest Guardian Golem whos trying to find humans

Wouldn't they be less radioactive than bananas at that point?

They are the aliums of the setting. The observing, advanced, butt probing kind.

>41%
So landfills would just be another coal deposit?

Because humans only happen at the specific planet at we are with the specific evolution path was made

Because they couldn't adapt fast enough to the influx of beastmen, giant creatures, other humanoid races, and mutants inside the human population.

So they collapsed and only the far eastern human kingdoms had enough time to get their shit together. They also received lots of refugees from the west as it was collapsing, making these eastern kingdoms become truly multiculturalism(TM) and diverse (TM). Truly fitting of the last bastion of humanity.

Humans are tools used by the gods to avert apocalypses. They only keep around as many as they need, and if the humans are ever killed off entirely the gods can always make more as needed.

>Why are there almost no humans in your setting/tg/?

They got sick and died from Undead Plague or for that matter; were turned into Undead by said Plague.
They then tried to fix it by burning everything with magic and instead it just caused massive drought, famine, and by the time everything was done they were more obscure than Gnomes.
Today Humans are so uncommon they're not even called 'Human' by the other races, but instead known as "Ipotanes" which is basically just a fancy term for Half-Centaur.

All of this, however, is INCREDIBLY INCONVENIENT for the surviving Vampire population as many of them are Humans and Centaurs and the blood of their closest kin is MOST DELICIOUS.
Many of them will go to great, almost OBSESSIVE, lengths and use every resource they have at their disposal to attain a steady supply of Human blood- even if they can only kidnap and groom one Human for all their needs.

They fucked everything and spread themselves too thin.
Technically everything is part human, even the few humans left aren't pure human, they've got a bit of a couple other races in their heritage.

Huh. Eventually, I suppose.

There are numerous alien alliances and other groups that watch for other aliens to see if they would be useful in "uplifting" or if they would be a threat.

Two such groups had opposing views of human as humanity was beginning to spread into the solar system as a whole:
One group wanted to help the humans in their expanse because they saw a powerful economic ally, the other was worried that the other group would leverage humanities fighting abilities to tip the scales in their favor.

So the other side decided to try and pre-emptivly kill humanity but did not anticipate humanities abilties to fight back enough until the pro human group was able to come in and aid them.

In the end, Earth is a dead world and humanity has essentially turned the solar system into a fortress only less weary of their "allies as many humans blame them for getting humanity involved in intersteller bullshit in the first place.

Wait how did they turn into centaurs after being undead

Nigga Whet?

It's the Pleistocene and there just haven't been humans for very long.

I wouldn't call them "humans" exactly.

Well, in the one, on the one planet it takes place all the humans wiped themselves out in a form of MAD Scenario, and the humans that survived that hunted each other down mercilessly, finally the last few wretched humans succumbed to desolate land. Over time, what the humans created took over the world and think back to the legendary times when the Wizard-Kings, the Autarchs, ruled with fire from the sky, and ultimately wiped themselves out with that fire.

In the other setting, it's humans only. But due to transhumanism humans have become their own aliens.

>Mankind--
>UGH!

I'd love to live a century after human extinction

Just wandering through the towns and cities that nature has reclaimed would be wonderful.

True Humans died out a long time ago, their own bloodlust marked them as an enemy to everybody, and they were betrayed by their own high warlord, who sent them to the bottom of the sea during an ill advised assault against a race of bird people.

The remaining few were struck with a melancholy that quelled their rage, the literal Flame in their veins cooling and sputtering out, until eventually they became the Low Humans, and then eventually those humans settled and built farms and cities, becoming the High Humans.

But the Gods, the Gods remember, and are loathe to ever let the world be consumed by war lest that Flame be reignited, and the High Humans consumed by it.

Because earth was wiped out in its intergalactic empire infancy and there are barely any human communities left, making humans extremely rare exotics worth loads emone

>Methane in atmosphere gone.

That chart immediately lost all credibility.

Methane is not something that only comes from human sources. For fucks sake a cows fart contributes more than any other source.

Shit man, compared to tons of different animals humans produce very little methane from their body gases. Tiger farts being one of the biggest crooks of them all.

FARM-RAISED cows. Without humans, most of those would die off too.

They created the "Perfect" being, and they made more, a lot more.
Eventually these perfect beings said "Hey, we're better than our creators, we should be the best" so they rebelled and wiped all traces of humanity except for their stranger technology, which they can claim is "Precursor" technology and impress the new races on the galactic stage.

Gods created them like 10 years ago. There are many old humanoid races well established in the world though.

Gas giants have high methane content, and several moons in our solar system have methane atmospheres.
Animals be damned, it's a naturally occurring substance.

Apropos of nothing, there's a 300,000,000,000 mile diameter cloud of alcohol 10,000 light years away.

>thinking that getting rid of humans would reduce the amount of animals an area could sustain
>not understanding ecology and wildlife conservation while trying to discuss the human footprint
>forgetting that before the age of mammals, oxygen levels were so rich that bugs grew to the size of dogs, algae choked out huge portions of aquatic life, and fires spread into hellscapes in an instant
>thinking changing levels of atmospheric gasses are because of humans
>not realizing we're a tiny part of the ever changing biosphere.
>he doesn't realize that even if we made the planet uninhabitable for ourselves, a boom of biodiversity would occur when a new family of life forms emerged that could tolerate what ever conditions the planet was under
>forgetting that life started at the bottom of an ocean feeding off the waste byproducts of volcanic activity and didn't even need oxygen
Wew lad.

The orc dick was too strong.

>thinking that getting rid of humans would reduce the amount of animals an area could sustain
It absolutely would. I honestly have no idea what would happen to methane amounts, but you can be damn sure human farming techniques are FAR denser than anything natural.

More efficient for providing food for humans, but not more dense than wild lands. A given area can only grow so much plant life, which can only support so many herbivores, which support only a certain amount of predators. The only difference between farming and nature is that when you farm, it's all useful to humans. You may better guarantee that a specific area will stay at capacity, but you won't ever increase it. Modern farming has reduced the number of people required to tend farms, but hasn't increased the yield by that much.

Some alien god manifested and pranced around changing human populations into new races by adding or altering a few features here and there before he got chased off.

Think about it dumbass

First there were only humans.
But then came the disigner babies.
The goal for most was something "elf" like, version 0.5 were called "half-elves".
Many furries gave their children certain animal characteristics.
NK created "goblins" smaller required less food but green as a side effect of commie tech.
After many a generation the only "pure" humans were born from ludite sects.

Because they have all turned into immortal undead super liches (no phylactery needed), long story short, Humanity became an all conquering empire (think rome or imperium of man) that pushed the boundaries of science and magic to degrees that even the gods were scared of, political faggotory and corruption happened and a planet wide mega war erupts, 24 hours later Humanity has nearly life wiped the planet and turned themselves into undead, most other races have fled to a new world in an alternate reality and left the old world to the undead humans

Humans sometimes come to the new world to trade, be tourists and adventure for shits and giggles, most races and terrified of humanity for obvious reasons but humans are now chilled out and like making undead bone jokes and puns much to everyone else's confusion

>>thinking that getting rid of humans would reduce the amount of animals an area could sustain
Um... The reason the population of cows on earth is so high is because humans protect them from predators. If the humans all disappear, the population of cows will plummet.

Almost? There are none.

The various races are artificial selected derivatives of humans

>Why are there almost no humans in your setting/tg/?
Jokes on you, I play low fantasy humano-centric campaigns exclusively.

That sounds really stupid, and I love it.

Honestly most of my problems with nonhuman races aren't a problem in low fantasy

Somebody's never seen an irrigated desert.

There aren't any less then there are now.
It's just that there are billions of us.
But there are trillions of aliens.

because i'm surrounded by humans 24 hours a day, 365. i want to get away from that shit for a bit.

Do you literally live with your parents?

no, it's called having a job, family and social life. i know that's hard to imagine on Veeky Forums of all places.

They can't compete. Take a look at the stats of an average hobgoblin, for example. A hobgoblin mook is measurably stronger, faster and tougher than a standard human. They're more organized, they're better at fighting, and they're naturally more ferocious than humans. In a world where the two races coexist, humans would obviously only exist on the fringes of the civilized world, living a nomadic (or adventurous) life far away from the more successful hobgoblins. And once you start adding more races and civilizations into the mix, it becomes even more difficult for humans to get a foothold. Humans are either steppe herders or wandering adventurers.

They don't exist yet. My players don't know it, but the King of Dawn and Queen of Night are planning on ending the war with the Dragons by casting a spell that will rip out all the magic from the bodies of every elf to instantly kill every dragon and then trap their souls inside the dead husks of those same elves.

The result will be humans.

>If you aren't going to contribute, don't post.
(Thou)