Humans

Why do fantasy settings insist on having humans in them?

Because most of the players are human and find it easy to roleplay a species they are familiar with.

Because plebs. See It's the same reason we get shitty Renfair settings full of Tolkien races, and why most combat encounters are laughably easy pushovers.

Plebs, OP. It's always plebs.

As a template to base all lesser races off of.

Because coming up with believable fantasy races involves actual effort in world building. If you come up with a race of slugs that use telekinesis for manipulating tools, it makes no sense for them to have traditional swords because they don't need a hilt. That means you have to imagine new weapons. They also probably need different armor because they're slugs, so you need to come up with armor/clothing that makes sense. After all, would sapient slugs go naked if clothing/armor provided an advantage to them? Probably not. Then you have food, culture, language, and all that entails. It sounds like overkill, but those are the kinds of issues having a race of creatures that don't have human bodies but have human minds raises. The simplest solution is to just say, "Okay, they are actually just normal humans, but they have pointy ears and they live longer." That way, their culture and such can be almost entirely based on human culture with a few modifications rather than having to dream up an entire new world.

Because humans run a monopoly on fantasy settings and control the economy. We need more opportunities for non-humans in the workforce.

Ask someone who isn't a human.

Because when you have all these wacky races, and importantly half-races, you need a medium for them all to interact by/through, and humans are the sort to befriend everyone with the intent of getting in their pants.

But I don't speak turkish
Or Chinese

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Most fantasy settings are often written by humans, intended to have themes from human cultures, evoke a specific time period from human history, contain literalized versions of human mythologies, or otherwise feature subjects humans would find interesting. Many settings would lose this, and whatever grounding they have, if humanity and all that comes with it were to be removed.

There is literally nothing inherently wrong with renaissance settings or Tolkien races. It's all about execution.

>Why do fantasy settings insist on having humans in them?
Have you ever tried humans?
They're fucking delicious!

>Unhealthy diets
>Crawl around in the mud and smoky cities
>Probably infested with parasites from all the meat they eat
>No exercise, more fat than meat to them
>Said fat humans have clogged intestines, which makes swallowing them whole even more disgusting

I dunno where you're getting your delicious humans from, but all the ones I find taste like shit.

You gotta get the free range ones while they're out hunting, foraging, or tending their crops.

Do you think you're funny?

They're relatable. I guess that's the gist of it.

Not him but he doesn't mean literal Renaissance settings. He's comparing your average fantasy setting to a Renn Faire: a pastiche of familiar elements built into facades and acts because it's familiar to you. You fight orcs and work with elves to save the city of Lion Guard because you expect it, much like how you expect to get your tendies and Diet Coke at the Ye Olde Mutton Shoppe (which is just a wooden shack built around a deep fryer).

Do you think they were making a joke?

Zarus didn't die for this shit.

What kind of fantasy setting?

What would be a suitable replacer for humans?

People can't think outiside of the box.
They like the box, it's comfortable, safe and familiar.

It's gross narcissism, Mary Sue wish fulfillment and pandering to the worst fans in the world.

Humans in settings have to be justified and explained, just like everything else. At least have something like "a bunch of monkeys took 1 million years to evolve wiggly thumbs and the ability to lie, while the elves and dwarves and orcs pointed and laughed the whole time, BUT WHOSE LAUGHING NOW."

I have one setting based on Faerie where the humans are only there as refugees after thoroughly fucking up their own world.

>It's gross narcissism, Mary Sue wish fulfillment and pandering to the worst fans in the world
what if a nonhuman plays a human character?

>Nonhuman
>Willingly sitting down and playing with manlets, neckbeards, and aboriginals.

that would be internalized racism

They are effectively "Hobgoblins" in the elf-dwarf world. They are stronger than elves, more agile than dwarves, and have a love for both law and the lack there of.

They are the ubermensch of the non-monster races.

What are you talking about?
Bottomdwellers make some the best eating.
Catfish, lobster, lawyer
You just have to not think about what you're eating.

>You gotta get the free range ones while they're out hunting, foraging, or tending their crops.
Ooh yeah, this user knows what he's talking about.

Because we need someone to be the 'normals'.

If we're all unique, none of us are unique.

The only true answer.

Perfection has a name and it's called:

Human

To have the most snowflake race possible while claiming they are normal

What about gorillas?

They're for the non-furfag, non-snowflake players who don't want to be an elf or dwarf

>Why do fantasy settings insist on having humans in them?

Can someone please post that example of bad writing where a sci-fi novel uses terms with no correlation to recognizable measurements, animals, or noises?

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have you tried playing Noumenon?

gotta say this:

you know you are living with "diversity" when the idea of diversity is to pick one race you don't like and utterly remove them from the world.

real diversity is mass-inclusive.
we need humans. we need catfolk. we don't need kender, but going all out holocaust on them would be pretty facist.

I don't know personally i've never played a non-human race, just humans, i mean it don't feel right to play a non-human for some reason.

Because humans are already diverse enough.
Most fantasy or sci fi races are just humans with pointy ears or blue skin.

point of reference

better than going into you magical realm fantasy

Because there has to be an obvious source of white cis-male npc's for the "special interest" players to have their characters harangue and hate.

anyway all answers in this thread is true

Most don't. The only settings that have humans in them are in games played on the planet Earth by its human inhabitants.

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