Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General What's the appeal of humans?

Larian said Elves, Half-elves and Tieflings were most popular races in EA. All of them have (had) a good variety of subraces to suit various classes, along with pleasing aesthetics. Swen also emphasizes choice as being core to BG3.

I'm going to hazard a guess that humans get a range of features to pick and choose.

Polearms, light armour and carry weight are weak global options, but could be fine specific choices for say BG3 monks. I can see Larian simply implementing the monk weapons feature to apply to any weapon your monk is proficient in; so these picks allow a human monk to start with a d10 monk weapon, able to wear light armour boots/helmets/gloves, and can carry/shove/throw an extra 50 lbs (20kg). Light armour would be good for a high strength build with ok Wis at low levels. That's a pretty fair upgrade for a specific build.