It almost seams like Bob took a look at what the best, most popular, character builds are, limited the second most usefull offensive and defensive skills to 50, added armor and weapon limitations to fit his lore, added 100 skill points, and limited any other skills that might allow for creative character development (I.E. a war-mage with skills of a crafter).
Basically if your a race, you agree to be a cookie cutter character that can never reach the potential of a human. Even the crafting class is limited to 50 tinkering...which is really just a smith class, not a full blown crafting class.
IMO, Adding 100 skill points was basically useless, because anything you'd want to add is limited. If your a crappy or meadeoker tank mage (that never wears plate) and you want to add Arms Lore, i suppose a war-mage would be your thing....
I've talked over some of these limitations with Bob till I was blue in the face, but they are here to stay. I hope that his inflexibility on the issue is because he has plans for massive improvement/additions down the road, and removing/changing these limitations would make those classes grossly imbalanced.
All my characters turned human, and will stay that way unless what I mentioned above turns out to be true. It's a very good race system, and it's a shame to see that kind of scripting talent wasted on things people will not use....the ones who do use it will quickly find that they are at a rather large disadvantage compared to there human counterpart, particularly in regards to PvP/PvM.
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i think thats a good option to look into...