[Khalathwyr]

Originally Posted by Malkius

What I don't understand is... why even have races if they aren't going to have specific racial abilities. Why not just make everyone play a human? Sure some races may have itty bitty tiny racial ability scores... but asside from that, what's the point? I like it when races have different abilities, stuff that makes them stand out.

Variety. It would be pretty boring in a High Fantasy setting if only Humans existed. I like their reasoning behind not assigning additional bonuses to the races because what they say is true. Players will try to find the "optimal" race for a given class and thereafter the majority of the time you see those races it's most probably going to be that optimized class.

While not totally committing to ARAC, this is a step in the direction away from races being paired up with specific classes. Races can be chosen for role-play or aesthetic reasons as opposed to meta-gaming reasons, which is a nice change I think.