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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 1609437" data-attributes="member: 13966">People are complaining because they don't want any race to be as good of a caster as dwarves and half-orcs are as warriors.  There's nothing wrong with a race that has mental ability score bonuses and no ECL modifier, even if they have an appropriate spellcasting class as their favored class.  Of course a +2 Int class is probably the best wizard, just as elves are obviously the best wizards in the core rules and dwarves are the best fighters or barbarians in the core rules.  That doesn't mean that all fighters and barbarians are dwarves normally, or that all wizards are elves, just as all rogues aren't halflings.  Sure, many are, but that's precisely why those are their favored classes.  There are still human fighters and dwarven monks and elven druids, etc.  +2 Int is not as powerful as +2 Str or Dex, and +2 Cha isn't as powerful as +2 anything else.  People just fear that munchkins need a serious penalty to deter them from playing anything that could be a good spellcaster, even though they have no qualms about said munchkin playing a half-orc barbarian or dwarven fighter that can mow things down in a rapid fashion all day long. Your races are a bit weak as far as I can tell, except for maybe the Sylvani which are maybe fine or maybe just a tad weak.  Do the Feori have a swim speed or anything of the sort, since they're amphibious, or not?  I recommend renaming the Emrudin, it immediately brings to mind EQ's Erudites and their city of Erudin. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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