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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kinematics" data-source="post: 8016289" data-attributes="member: 6932123">It will certainly be difficult.  Balancing the stats is actually the easy part.  The difficult parts are things like races with a lower base speed, that are given other boosts to balance that out.  However if you decouple ancestry from culture, you can't guarantee that that balance will be maintained.If any race could pick up a culture that was balanced around the 'stats' of the base race, that would be unbalanced.  For example, halflings have lower base speed, but get Halfling Nimbleness and Lucky.  Those are clearly overpowered for a mere speed increase, but then you have to consider that the halfling subraces are very sparse; they don't get all the benefits that, say, the elves do in their subraces.So to balance it all out you have to consider how much power is put into each segment of the creation.  If halflings get Lucky as a race trait, how do you keep them from being overtuned if you combine them with an expansive culture like the various elf subraces?Caveat: I haven't done a thorough analysis of the various combinations, nor am I sure of exactly what counts as balanced, within this scope.</blockquote>