Human characters

Human is the biggest section here by a distance, and the hardest to make interesting. No horns, no fur, no glow, so whatever lands on the page has to come from the clothes and the face. What saves them is usually one detail: a burglar who keeps his gloves spotless after every job, a sorcerer in a weather-stained coat who looks like she has been walking for a week.

Paladins lead, then fighters and rangers, then rogues, and nearly three in four are men. Skin is mostly tanned and weathered, hair short and cropped on the fighters and paladins, longer on the casters. The casters are where it gets more colourful, sorcerers with flame-red or turquoise hair, warlocks with eldritch tattoos and long dusters, artificers with soot in their hair and cogs in their braids. Women are the minority in almost every class, so a human woman in plate or a female ranger is an easy way to stand out here.