What about giving humans a bonus to learning skills and/or spells? Maybe some sort of bonus to experience? This would reflect a human's capability to quickly learn and adapt that seems to be popular in fantasy (epsecially D&D) settings. On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Andreas Vogl wrote: <snip> > > Discussion: (On Races) > > > > My problem is that humans seem very boringly vanilla: what could > > make them an attractive choice? > > In almost every MUD you´ll find a seemingly boring human race > without any special abilities. Still, humans are allrounders > and usually very popular to start out with. > --