Variant human is one of the strongest races in the game (Feat at level 1). And feats are fun.
but that's just Variant Human, since Regular Humans suck, they don't get that extra feat at level 1, plus they don't have dark vision like a bunch of noobs.
also according to the lore Humans aren't a native species of Toril aka the D&D world that Baldur's Gate is set in, the ones in D&D and BG3 are descended from the Humans of Earth.
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You sure about that? I’m not saying you are wrong, but I’ve just never heard that about humans being outsiders in the setting. I checked the FR wiki and it says humans are native to Toril, but I don’t know enough to verify that. The citation is Races of Faerun (2003).
"On Toril, in the year −4366 DR, the mages of a nation on the continent of Faerûn known as the Imaskar Empire sought to replenish their population after a devastating plague. To this end they opened two great gates to another world, widely believed to have been Earth and kidnapped numerous humans from different eras of that world's history to serve as their slaves. Those of Mulhorand hailed from a desert land given life by the seasonal flooding of a great river and those of Unther from another desert land. After transporting them back to Abeir-Toril, the Imaskari closed the gates forever. With them, these people brought their own societies, mature culture, and later, the gods of the Mulhorandi and Untheric pantheons. And over time, through Intermarriage between the desert people and the Imaskari, a new ethnic group would come to form known as the Mulan."
