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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9398820" data-attributes="member: 4937">Thinking about my own answer, I realize that I have the same take on choosing a race.  For something like Star Trek, I could care less if race had any mechanical support.  In the source material, they are all just humans with bumps on their head anyway, and no race has in any sustained way been portrayed as non-human or outside the normal spectrum of human emotions.  Choice of race is therefore almost entirely cosmetic for basically anything you'd have as a playable race.  A few people might pick Vulcans or Andorrans or Orions or Klingons just to be a little bit different or for aesthetic reasons, but it's all just aesthetics anyway.But the more alien the race and the less like a human it is, the more I would feel a need for mechanical support in some regard and the less I feel like it should be included as a option if the mechanical support isn't there.  Like, if there is no mechanical support that makes being a pixie or a frost giant different than being a human, then it feels really silly.  A lack of mechanical support therefore suggests there isn't really any meaningful difference between the species or races, which is perfectly fine if you are all just humans with bumps, skin color variation, or funny ears.</blockquote>