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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LeifVignirsson" data-source="post: 777432" data-attributes="member: 10833">IMC I agree with you guys.  The place where we are at now and will be for a while is heavily elven and all subraces (THANK YOU, RACES OF FAERUN!), but that doesn't mean that there are other races.  If my players were to ever want to play as these races, I would allow them to not experience the penalty.HOWEVER, I can say that I am also playing in a campaign where the DM enforces the penalty and I can see why he does.  He has a more deverse world where mindsets are cast in stone.  To have a branch of humans break away from that mindset is blasphemy.  Of course, we all have been doing this for years and I can see the throwback to 2E, but it hasn't affected me so far (Dragon Disciple/Rogue/Sorceror/Fighter - 5/2/2/2... Don't ask, I had no idea what I was thinking at the time.).I guess all I am really saying is that it, like many other rules, are a point of preference more than cast in stone.  If you don't particularly like the rule, then you can alter it.  I think that is something that everyone seems to overlook.And before I go, I have to rebut something Drawback said..."First, the favored class does not make any sense. So your gnome favored class is illusionist (or cleric or whatever) so when I stumble into a gnome city a majority of the inhabitants should be illusionists, but this doesn't make any sense."It isn't the majority of inhabitants (though most of them would be inclined that direction), it is a majority of ADVENTERERS that would be Illusionists.  The regular, mundane (yawn) gnomes would be peasents and the like.  Same with Elves and wizard favored... Just an observation, I always enjoy reading the posts my friend, you have alot of insight.</blockquote>

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