I'm not worried about the balance as much as I am bothered that there's zero mechanical reason to play a human.

I think I'll go with +1 to an ability mod less than +3.

Yeah, I don't plan on having racism or item restrictions and such so it isn't for me. 1st level + bonuses could work, but I'm kind of annoyed by the whole thing. I feel like this whole issues stems from trying to be loyal to BX but then completely ignoring that BX capped demihumans from advancing to...

Thanks. I don't buy the "human-centric" reason as good enough to have a nearly worthless bonus when Dwarves are drowning in free saves. Admittedly the majority of my fantasy ideas come from the Hobbit book and LotR movies, but I don't recall any major racism in either. Maaaaybe if the race...

I am new to old school RPGs and appreciate most of the changes from BX -> BFRPG, but I can't wrap my head around the rationale behind the bonus humans get. Comparing humans to dwarves, we get Humans: No Con requirement. Can use weapons that dwarves can't, but this is close to meaningless, as equival...

It would be cool to have the encumbrance/movement rules here, otherwise awesome!