Upgrading Humans

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Upgrading Humans

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So, something that's become a bit more common in RPGs is to give humans distinct abilities, rather than being baseline with no special abilities. For most games, it's that humans are flexible... additional skills or being able to choose a special ability that others have to pay for (in Savage Worlds, its a free feat; in WD&D, it's a feat and more skill points).

What would you give to humans in Palladium Fantasy... some special ability that sets them apart from "just the average"?
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Rather than rolling the stats and putting them in as they roll them in order, I let the players of humans roll all of them and then choose where to put them, so if they need a high IQ character playing a human gives them the best chance of doing that which shows their adaptability.

Otherwise it's 2 down 1 up for their stats (except speed)
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Something I have been thinking about (but haven't tried in a game) would be to give them something based on the culture they originated from. This could be resistances against psionics and certain magics for those from Bizantium where those things are reviled, or bonus PPE/casts per day or maybe even knowledge of a specific spell or circle of protection for those from the Western Empire where magic is more prevalent. It would be more difficult to come up with an array of things instead of a set benefit, but I would personally find that more interesting than "all humans get X".
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The Rifts Dimension Book: Manhunters gave humans a 4D6 M.A. and +20% to 3 skills.
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There is (in the HU game) the Eugenics Power Cat. in PU2 and Bio-Modifications in AU:GG, that could be used to make specialized 'human' races for use as NPCs in PF.

What I remember of the top of my head the old MH DB book the terrans got 3d6+1 for every attribute stat & some skills bonuses....but I'm not going out to the garage to go look for that book right now. so that is another way for humans to be specialized.
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Humanity is one of the shorter lived species in Palladia, right? If someone needs them to have a special thing I could see adding an experience bonus for non practitioner of magic OCCs, to represent a general sense of ambition.
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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:There is (in the HU game) the Eugenics Power Cat. in PU2 and Bio-Modifications in AU:GG, that could be used to make specialized 'human' races for use as NPCs in PF.

What I remember of the top of my head the old MH DB book the terrans got 3d6+1 for every attribute stat & some skills bonuses....but I'm not going out to the garage to go look for that book right now. so that is another way for humans to be specialized.

I posted above what Humans aka "Terrans" got in Manhunters Dimension Book
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In the northers hinterlands book there is a family of humans where the women from that family get bonuses to PP and bonus skills.
But i must say i prefer cultural type bonuses like the Imperial Janissaries OCC in the western empire for example.
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I wouldn't make them any more special. I'm more into the race for the role playing sake and humans make up the dominant civilisations in most of the Palladium World which is a big advantage.
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NMI wrote:
drewkitty ~..~ wrote:What I remember of the top of my head the old MH DB book the terrans got 3d6+1 for every attribute stat & some skills bonuses....but I'm not going out to the garage to go look for that book right now. so that is another way for humans to be specialized.

I posted above what Humans aka "Terrans" got in Manhunters Dimension Book

Yep, we were talking about the same book.
I see the mildly insulting 'explaining to' statement, but not the 'the race with +1 to each stat was the XXXXX race' part.
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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:
NMI wrote:
drewkitty ~..~ wrote:What I remember of the top of my head the old MH DB book the terrans got 3d6+1 for every attribute stat & some skills bonuses....but I'm not going out to the garage to go look for that book right now. so that is another way for humans to be specialized.

I posted above what Humans aka "Terrans" got in Manhunters Dimension Book

Yep, we were talking about the same book.
I see the mildly insulting 'explaining to' statement, but not the 'the race with +1 to each stat was the XXXXX race' part.
Looking through the book, I dont see a race that gets a +1 to each stat.

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Okay
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