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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3202667" data-attributes="member: 40522">Would it be more interesting to have races function more like in Savage Species? For example, have you start out as a human fighter or wizard and get that sweet bonus feat. Humans are known for being cool with skills. So if they want to, they could take a Humanoid hit die instead of getting a class level and get more skill points and maybe some more bonus feats or something? There'd be no commoners, but instead treat characters w/o class levels as a 1-HD humanoid?Then you could make the dwarf racial levels give them "race skills" like Craft, high Fortitude saves, et cetera. Give elves "race skills" like Knowledge (arcana), good Will saves, proficiency with their longsword and longbow, et cetera.To me, the big draw of a system like this would be that you could take a short detour from your class to get some cool things that your race is good at, no one would really expect you to be a 20-HD dwarf. Spreading the benefits across 5 levels (or even just 2 or 3) would give you a choice of being a good fighter or a decent fighter but a more well-rounded dwarf.I'd know this would take alot of work to playtest and implement, but it seems like it'd be reasonable.</blockquote>