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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pierce" data-source="post: 1299700" data-attributes="member: 12161">From a min/max perspective:I would drop the Personal Weapons Prof. from both lists.  9 times out of 10 players take this feat as one of their two starting feats.  Therefore the only benefit you get for being human is the extra skill point.  You trade that off with the +2 to two skills and a potential 20 in INT/CHA and there's no real reason to be anything but and Elf or Gnome.  Plus, if you're a gnome, the bonus to INT delivers the extra skill point - though the -2 CON does hurt.  Again, this is a min/max tactic.  If you've got a good group of RPers, this isn't a big deal.All that said, I like the background for both.  Just enough of the traditional flavor (especially for the gnomes) to evoke the idea of the race while still different enough to be tasty.  The only minor disjunction I see is that if Gnomes (at the basest castes) are manual laborers, why give a CON penalty?  Shouldn't these laborers be in fairly good health?  Or do they just get bunches of sick days <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=":)" />?Good work.</blockquote>