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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5557396" data-attributes="member: 4937">Of course not, you are human.  You can automatically pick one of your majors as your favored class.My assumption is that the XP penalty was intended for the following reasons:a) To make human, which historically had been an unattractive option in many cases, more attractive as a choice in as much as many builds would require a human racial choice to avoid the XP penalty.b) To discourage dipping into a large number of classes purely to achieve mechanical optimization.c) To soft enforce archetypal differences in culture and abilities between the races without actually forbiding certain class combinations.Of course, this was ultimately undermined by that worst and most poorly thought out of all 3.X era mechanics - the Prestige Class - but that is a different topic.UPDATE: I guess I should read the thread before responding.  Jimlock seems to have beaten me to it.</blockquote>