Halfling Rangers and Iksar Rogues are both cases where I routinely forget they're NOT options in the game already.
Half elven Clerics seem to me to be another flagrant omission. I understand that some peoples might discriminate against the half-breed race and refuse to ordain them (even if they'll train them as Paladins) but I cannot accept that absolutely ALL the many different factions in the world would discriminate equally. That's one heck of a deep conspiracy.
On the other side of it, Troll and Ogre Shadow Knights make little sense, as both are primitive monster races which have no notion of a knightly code of honor. In reality they exist because 989/VI wanted all races to have at least three options and the SK was the "least bad" choice for the monster races. Sometimes game design becomes a case of shoehorning something in then coming up with an excuse for it after the fact.
Danth
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