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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chacal" data-source="post: 855615" data-attributes="member: 1349">I like the abilities you suggested, and I prefer giving racial traits without raising ECL.The problem with using feats is that there are already too many good feats to choose from, so there is less chance that a PC would take "racial feats" than they pick their prefered class.If the initial intent is having more racial related abilities upon levelling, this would not be an efficient approach.If it was gaining access to secrets, there are already some racial PrCs and Feats that fit this concept.If we can find small benefits for each race, that could be balanced (between PCs).We can see the current racial abilities as "front-loaded". Putting more abilities will raise the ECL if we keep them front-loaded, but if we tie some abilities to the character level (like some templates do), we might add some flavorful racial stereotypes while not unbalancing too much.I think templates (without ECL) could be the way to go. Did anyone tried to describe races as templates (I think they were some for making half-races some times ago) ?Chacal</blockquote>