Regional Humans
Humans of Abraeas’Dor
The humans of Abraeas’Dor are the most adaptive, but not quite as common as Elves or Dwarves, and are in the minority compared to other standard fantasy races. Humans on this plane of existence are also one of the youngest races in the world, only having been present for the past 150,000 years, compared to the elves 800,000 and the dwarves 600,000. The humans have many subspecies depending on the age of the world and the locations in the world, some blind with heightened senses in the depths, some naturally blessed, some touched by the divine, some blessed by the sea after many years of magical influence, and some marked by the fiendish evils of the core.
Standard Humans
The basic human has remained mostly the same over the past 100,000 years, with humans becoming far more capable and escaping from under the feet of the longer lived races, proving their hardiness and their surprising spirit and durability. Humans are often gifted with prodigal skills in specific subjects and have the widest variations of personality, faith, and histories tied to their tribes and clans.
Standard Human Template
Ability Score Improvements
5e - You gain a +1 bonus to all stats
3.5e - You gain a +1 bonus to all stats
Species - You are humanoid
Size - You are small or medium\
Movement Speed - Your base movement speed is 30ft
Proficiencies -You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice(5e & 3.5e) and one tool of your choice(5e & 3.5e), and you are proficient in improvised weapons.
Adaptive Talents - You are able to pick up and understand signals and common hand gestures to understand people speaking in languages you are not proficient with. You are able to decipher directions and signage in languages you don’t speak or read, and you are able to use most weaponry, even exotic weaponry with a base level of proficiency as improvised weapons, which you have proficiency in. You and other humans are able to communicate clearly despite language barriers.
The Inspiring Will - You are human, and have advantage on Wisdom Saves(5e)/gain a +5 bonus to Will Saves(3.5e).
Feat at First Level - You are able to take a feat at first level(5e)/Take an additional feat at first level(3.5e)
Normal Life with Greater Ambition - Your life span is between 80-100 years old, depending on your environment, and as such, you have a greater zest for life than some of the longer lived races. You are able to pick up talents in tools and skills more quickly than other races, and can master crafts in half the time as other races. Your time to learn a new rune, craft an item, or learn a language is cut in half.
Human Subspecies:
Rothiian Human
The Rothiian Empire is the empire of monsterkind and has the strongest bond with the monstrous races and the people of the depths and the core. You are a human from the monstrous empire of Roth, on the surface of Abraeas’Dor. Your experience living among the hags, fiends, witches, infected, vampires, and lycans have made you quite hardy and resilient compared to humans from most other surface empires. Your will to survive is the only reason you still draw breath as a mortal being and not a fiend’s slave. You have taken on animalistic tendencies and have a number of unique abilities that others of your kind do not possess.
Savage Combatant - You have learned to fight for all the wins you’ve ever had, pushed yourself to your physical and mental limit, and take on an animalistic viewpoint in battles for your life. You are able to handle attacks that bring you to near death better than most. When you are knocked down to zero hitpoints, you regain consciousness at 1 hitpoint, and while at 1 hitpoint, your attacks deal an additional damage die of damage. You can regain your consciousness 1/Day.
Improved Darkvision - You have darkvision out to 100ft instead of 30ft.
Monstrous Tongue - You are able to understand and speak to monstrosities, aberrations, undead, and beasts, having picked up the native tongues of monsters during your time serving in Roth. You also speak Infernal and Abyssal.
Brutal Combat Training - You were trained to fight in the Rothiian Empire, having to compete with much longer lived races and creatures with innate power advantages. Your combat studies have given you proficiency with Martial and Simple Weapons, and Exotic Weapons.
Specialty Student - You have studied a specific aspect of the world in order to maintain a lifestyle and bring in a reliable source of income. Choose one of the following subjects to have a specialty in;
The Plagues of Vibarii
Engineering
Masonry and Architecture
Cooking
World History
Combat Tactics and Strategies
Mithiian Human
You are a human born in the empire of Mithiias. A place of undead, horrifying divinity, colossal gods, sea monsters, vicious raiders and terrors of the mind. You were raised in frigid, freezing temperatures, taught since birth to worship the concept of death and view such conditions as frostbite as a blessing from the gods. You have been to dead worlds on the backs of your deities, and have seen what divine death looks like. You have gazed into the horrors of undeath and eternal servitude to the empire and to the great gods of Mithiias. You are a human with a fire in your soul, warming yourself in the face of true adversity and untimely death.
Cold Resistance - You are resistant to cold damage(5e)/have cold resistance 3(3.5e), and you are immune to extremely cold temperatures without the use of winter clothes and bedrolls.
Master Snow Tracker - You are a master at tracking animals, beasts, and monsters through the snowy tundra. Your Survival Checks(5e & 3.5e) have advantage(5e)/or gain a +5 bonus(3.5e) in cold and snowy regions.
Experienced Sailor - You and all of your kin have been taught how to sail a ship and a submersible. You are proficient in Navigator’s Tools and can sail and drive submersibles and sailing ships like a master. You always know which way is north, you can tell exactly where you are on a naval map, and you are experienced in the proper woodworking, engineering, and technological knowledge to run submersibles and sailing ships.
Unyielding Endurance - You are a force to be reckoned with, and your melee attacks have a level of brutality behind them that most other humans don’t have. You get a +2 bonus to all of your attack and damage rolls with melee weapons.
Vaarnian Human
You are a human who grew up in the Vaarnian Empire, a place where infection is worshipped as a religious purpose and holy cause, where war against the Borrians is the greatest pursuit in the world, where the infectors of the military hold supreme respect, and vaarnian demigods hold the empire in their steel grasp. You are familiar with all things disease, all things experimental, and have been educated in all aspects of medicine, not to heal, but to spread the Plagues of Vibarii.
Poison Resistance and Naturalist Skills - You are resistant to Poison damage(5e)/have Poison damage resistance 3(3.5e). You are familiar with many plants, poisons, and spells that cause poison damage, and know how to heal poisonous wounds.
Land Vehicle Driver & Airship Flying Skills - You are capable of flying Vaarnian Airships, and can spend five minutes inside an airship from another empire and learn how to navigate and fly that airship like a master. You are also intimately familiar with the Vaarnian land vehicles they use in warfare. You can drive electric, magical, or gas powered land vehicles.
Dire Human - You were inevitably part of the constantly churning Vaarnian military complex and constant warfare against the Borrian Empire. You have learned several new methods of fighting, and are experienced with Martial Weapons and Improvised Weapons. You have Improvised and Martial Weapons. You are also trained in savage forms of combat. You are able to push your body to its limits, and are able to add your Constitution modifier to your full attack action’s damage 1/Day.
Thraxuuan Human
You are a human raised in the empire of Thraxus’Nal. You are surrounded by wealth disparity, decadent buildings, carpets, mosaics, and golden floors. Your cities are great pyramids and your nation's people have a habit of using ancient technology to modify their bodies with biomechanical upgrades. You are a human who may have lived in poverty, or maybe you were a human who grew up in the wealthy families found all over Thraxus’Nal.
Basic Mechanical Upgrades - You may have paid to have biomechanical upgrades put into your body. Choose one of the options below if you wish to have a biomechanical upgrade;
Mechanical Arm(forearm through hand) that gives you Advantage on Strength Checks(5e)/ or gives you a +5 bonus on Grapple Checks(3.5e)
Jumped Legs(from the hip down to feet) that give you bonuses for jump checks. You gain 10ft in Long Jump distance and 10ft in High Jump distance, and using an Action(5e)/Standard Action(3.5e) after moving 10ft before jumping grants you a 20ft jump distance upgrade and a 20ft jump height distance upgrade.
Heavy Flesh(Your skin is banded with metal underneath the skin). You gain a +2 bonus of your AC as part of a natural armor bonus. This effect is not negated when you wear regular armor.
Killer’s Punch(Your fists are banded with metal and your strike deal more damage). You are proficient with unarmed strikes and your unarmed strikes deal an additional 2d4 bludgeoning damage on a hit.
Political Savvy - You are proficient in Persuasion(5e)/Diplomacy(3.5e) Skills after spending a significant amount of time in the Thraxuuan’s decadent and political society.
Jewelry Identification - Your society is all about glamour and fashion, and magical jewelry was the talk of the town. In your years living in the cities of Thraxus’Nal, you have become familiar with most famous magical jewelry items. You are capable and skilled in identifying magical jewelry and magic items in the form of jewelry and gemstones. You can identify magic items in these forms without having to make a check.
Biomechanical Knowledge - You are able to identify biomechanical upgrades at a glance, and are able to fix most simple biomechanical upgrades with the proper tools and an hours worth of effort.
Abirrian Human
You are a human born in the fantastical, high fantasy realm of Abirria. Your life was full of arcane magic and warriors with a strong connection to the Heira Veil. You grew up surrounded by warriors, heroes, powerful shamans, and a society built around honor and respect. You were fed well, learned many useful skills, and have an innate knowledge of the arcanum. You studied in the free Acadaem’s and apprenticed under many powerful individuals.
Acadaem’s Teaching of the Runes - You were taught about the runes, even if you had not mastered any of them. You can identify runes as you see them without having to make a check, and you can scribe runes onto scrolls in normal time, you are just unable to use them as you have not mastered any runes yet. Your studies have acquainted yourself with many high profile mages and you can recognize a school of magic more quickly than many of your allies from other empires.
Mounted Specialty - The people of Abirria do not use much in the way of technology, and as a result, much travel in Abirria besides the waystations is done by mount. You are familiar with how to ride many different mounts, including riding exotic animals like the species that can be found in Abirria.
Shared Talents - You were born into an Abirrian household or belonged distantly to a household nearby where you grew up, and you have shared memories with the people of the house. You have a number of proficiencies due to this upbringing and the shared memory ritual. You are proficient two of the following options as signs of your shared memory and your studies;
History(5e)/Knowledge(History)(3.5e)
Survival(5e & 3.5e)
Arcana(5e)/Spellcraft(3.5e)
Insight(5e)/Use Magic Device(3.5e)
Nature(5e)/Knowledge(Nature)(3.5e)
Resistant to Plagues - Your people had driven out the great plague god Vibarii long ago, and you have shared genes with those who were resistant to the plagues, making you also resistant to the plagues. You have advantage(5e) on saves against the plagues/Get a +3 buff to Fortitude and Will saves against the plagues of Vibarii.
Brottoan Human
You are a human born in the tunneling, spacious, and underground empire of Brotto, where the dwarves, the giants, and the gigants roam, where tech is used to build great drilling machines and the holy orders of the Totem Gods hold dominion. Where the finest jewelry, gemstones, metals, and warmachines are found and built. You have grown up around a taste for dirt, stone, holy rituals, and the quiet of the caverns in the ground.
Base Crafting - You are able to craft using one tool of your choice. You gain proficiency in that tool.
Sturdy Mind - Your time in the great cities of Brotto, their strict laws, and their extremely efficient military training have made you harder in the mind than most other humans, with a sense of purpose to your life. Your mind is hard to change, even with magic, you have resistance(5e) to being charmed/gain a +3 bonus to your saves against being charmed(3.5e).
Bludgeoning Master - You are heavily trained in the use of Bludgeoning weapons, a favorite in the Brottoan Empire, and are able to wield any bludgeoning weapon, regardless of classification, giving you proficiency.
Darkvision - Your time among your people has made you far more capable of seeing in the dark. You gain Darkvision out to 30ft(5e)/You gain low-light vision(3.5e)
Alithean Human
You are a human born in the High Cities, The Empire of Alith. You have more refined tastes and have far more access to the nicer things. Being without them may be a challenge for you. Your people live in a 1920’s Steampunk empire aesthetic, and your life there is full of luxuries. You are familiar with a lot of nicer items and finer tools for adventuring, and the outside world is a little jarring to you. You were surrounded by avian people, the heiri, and high elves, and have seen much fewer dwarves, giants, and Abirrian races.
The Finer Things - You are skilled at locating fine tools, drinks, foods, clothes, and jewelry. Your skill in locating these items can assist you in finding magic item shops, proper jewelers, and many other finer items. You can locate these with advantage(5e)/A +5 bonus on your Search Checks to locate them(3.5e)
Firearm/Crossbow Talents - The Alitheans are the second most developed empire in the development for firearms. Your people use them regularly and you have proficiency in using any firearms except for laser weapons. You are also proficient in all crossbows available, including repeating crossbows.
Linguistics Talents - Your people speak many languages and have one of the most developed educational systems in the world, and you are all taught how to speak many languages while learning about the history of the world. You are proficient in two additional languages of your choice.
Ibnan Human
You are a human born in the nature-loving, tribalistic and isolationist empire of Ib’Na’Kar. Your people are druidic in nature even if all do not practice magical druidcraft, and your people are known to mingle amongst great awakened beasts and dinosaurs. Your world is a place of worship for the sky, the sea, and the land, with gods of natural landmarks and wild gods representing the beasts of the world and the mortal experience. Your life was likely extremely peaceful, and your empire is just now beginning to re-emerge onto the world stage. You have knowledge about animals and beasts, rituals and plants.
Natural Talents - You are able to identify most harmless plants, mushrooms, fungi, and moss. You gain a +5 bonus to your Nature(5e)/Knowledge(Nature)(3.5e) to identify these things in the wild, and you are proficient in the skill. In addition, your experience with the awakened, talking animals of the Ibnan Empire, you can foretell the needs of mounts, animals, and beasts before they make the moves to get them, due to a learned ability to predict the needs of animals.
Healing Salves - You are proficient with the proper tools to make small healing remedy vials that can assist with pain, make wounds heal faster, and make healing potions. You can make healing salves during a shift on your watch at night, in just three hours.
Animal Sense - You are trained to deal with, ride, train, and use dinosaurs in your daily life. You know when a situation requires you to be a little more aggressive or when the peace talks are not working and you need to step up. You have a modified danger sense with animals, beasts, and monstrosities, and can tell when they are friendly or not and what you might need to do to make them friendly.
Surprising Dexterity - Your people often live in treetop villages, ancient crumbling ruins, amidst great chasms and canyons, and all over the continent without building new buildings and destroying the wildlife. Your people’s respect for the natural world has made it so being dexterous and quick to react makes life easier. You are talented with these skills as well. You gain advantage on Dexterity Saves and Acrobatics Checks(5e)/Reflex Saves, Tumble and Balance Checks(3.5e) to sprint, run, and navigate the wilds of the world, like jungles, bustling forests, and dangerous mountain ridges.
Drakkonian Human
You are a human born in the Draconic Empires in the Atmos, and have grown up around powerful dragons, some who have lived for 15,000 years. The human bloodlines of the empire often end through tragedy over the course of the empire’s history. Your people are not oppressed, you are just deemed unimportant, and there are few accommodations for humans. The draconic technology is likely something you have worked with and you may have the natural powers of a sorcerer, which will gain you just a little bit more respect. Your family and yourself likely lived in poverty, unable to afford the many glorious and fine things that you can find in the Draconic Empires. You may be involved in local politics or part of the human attempts at protest for their needs being ignored. Your character is accustomed to dealing with public adversity.
Draconic Languages - You are able to speak Draconic, Kobold, and Goblin.
Specialized in Draconic Engineering - Your people are often relegated to the factories used to make Draconic machines, or perhaps you were hired to make a living at the runic factories, where the dragons use the runes to continue their empire’s stable flight, where you may have learned the basics of the runes and learned how to scribe them in good time and scribed the runes into the sides of the draconic machines. You have specialized secrets on the draconic empires, and can assist with any draconic machines or spells that you might come across. You have the Use Magic Device Skill(3.5e)/Arcana Skill(5e)
Sorcerous Studies - The humans of the Draconic Empires are often worshippers of the Immortal Dragon Lords themselves, and some follow in cults lead by Sorcerer’s, regarded as the greatest spellcasters in the empire. You may have belonged to a cult or attempted to learn sorcery, maybe you studied the arcanum to learn how spells work. You can identify spells commonly cast by sorcerers without having to make a check.
Sword and Spear Training - Your people often wield spears, javelins, and swords, the favored weapons of the mortals in the empire. You are trained/proficient in using all three, including all different variations of swords and spears. You also have a great deal of knowledge with identifying magical weapons that take these forms, learning legends and details about great lost weapons.
