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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MG.0" data-source="post: 6795561" data-attributes="member: 6799436">Sure, although first and second edition had level limits for demi-humans because the game really was geared towards human characters.The first paragraph is definitely about powerful monsters as characters and concerned with balance, but I think it is a mistake to write off the rest of the section. There are some important ideas in there: Namely that the players are human and can identifiy most closely with human characters. Every step away from humanity is a step towards the player being unable to play it believably, nevermind imagining themselves as the creature in question.I agree there has been a noticable shift in what is accepted and normal within the game. I still think there is value in those original ideas however.For me, it isn't a question of power or balance. It is the very obvious non-humanity of the races in question. I'd have an even bigger issue with a sentient slime character, even it were perfectly balanced.To each his own. As someone mentioned earlier, making every session a scene fromt the Mos Eisley cantina is not what I'm looking for.</blockquote>