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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1288884" data-attributes="member: 14403">Just keep humans the way they are.  At 1st level they'd get 8 extra skill points instead of 4 and they'd get 2 extra skill points at every level instead of 1.  That way there is still a benefit to playing humans.  An alternative I was thinking of was to allow each player to pick a class to be their preferred class when they create their character to reflect their upbringing.  As an example, an elf who's father (or mother) was a cleric of Corellon Latherian should have a fairly easy time becoming a cleric also as they were raised around within the faith.  A Half Orc who was abandoned on the steps of a monestary by his mother should be able to pick Monk as a preferred class due to his upbringing.  Could you really explain why a Half Orc thus raised would have an easier time as a Barbarian?  Children absorb what they are raised around.  The Half Orc Monk's personality and way of thinking would have been shaped by the monks who raised him and so would be a far cry from the savage orc that fathered him.</blockquote>