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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FlimFlam" data-source="post: 507505" data-attributes="member: 8567">I'm not a big fan on house rules myself, but curiousity got the best of me and I had an idea I wanted to share to see if it was a little overpowered or not.  I don't plan on ever using this myself, but maybe someone else might.I was thinking, why do humans start with an extra feat and 4 extra skill points (+1 skill point every character level over 1st)?  The reasoning from what I remember is that humans are generally faster learners then the other races.  Most other races have longer life spans, so they can take their time learning new things.  That is the role-play reason anyway.  The game mechanics reason is simply because all the other races get nifty bonuses to attributes, skills, etc.If humans are such fast learners (as represented by their bonus skill points) then why do they only get 1 starting feat at level 1 and no "bonus" feats later?  They are quick to learn skills, but not feats?  Kinda didn't make too much sense to me, so I came up with this idea...What if Humans got feats 1 character level earlier then normal?  It would look like this: Level 1 - Normal Human starting feat.  The next levels they would get feats are levels 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20.With this system, they would get their character level feats a little sooner (thus, showing they are quicker learners then the other races) and get 1 extra bonus feat, al beit at level 20.Thoughts?</blockquote>

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