Tales and Chronicles
Jewel of the North, formerly know as vincegetorix
Apparently, from what I've read on teh Interwebz, if races don't have ability modifiers then they are "just humans with halloween masks" or something like that. Derp.
Exactly. God forbid a character is actually defined by its way of interacting with the setting and the way he's seen by the inhabitants of the setting and the choices it made at level 1 having more than a passing effect on a ''build''. A race is only meaningful as long as it has an influence in the numbers on a sheet.