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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 5953091" data-attributes="member: 2710">I'm not entirely sure I take your meaning here. I was explicitly talking about ostensibly-distinct races which aren't so distinct. On the alternate racial traits, so far LPF allows all of them, and I don't imagine anything that's not considered 'overpowered' would be nixed insofar as Advanced Race Guide has added to already-approved races. From my perspective, there's already availability to customize your specific character's racial abilities as you see fit within the rules.If Qik's reading of your question is correct, then I'd go with him on that score. Personally I see it as more rather than less inspiring to pre-build racial alts and lock them to locations / cultures. (I'm going to set aside arguing anything based on real-world ethnicities, because I think that kind of talk can get offensive amazingly quickly without any intentions of moving that way). Oddly enough, I think they may be one of my favorites of what I've read. I thought they might actually fit really well in Heth (land of plague and poison) and/or Rhat'matanis (a bit more eastern-themed, where they might have been bred by the sorcerer-priests).  Of course, the latter may have to do with the fact that, as soon as I skimmed over them, I thought "darnit, Ru would have been a great Vishkanya." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> This is a good (counter)point. Technically, PC classes in general are supposed to be exceptions to the rule of normal life, so being odd in form as well as function might be logical, and part and parcel of a motive to take up such an exceptional lifestyle. And, yes, I think I've seen someone else point out before (SK, maybe?) that LPF players have a tendency to stick to core / human. I think there was a surge of the four bestiary races right when they were approved, but they've largely regularized since then.</blockquote>

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