Diversity With Balance

Ok, I know it's Friday and this post was supposed to be done yesterday.
I want to open up a discussion for the issue of Gaming Balance.

I know, I know, How do you create a logical balance between the species. I know it is hard, but I believe it is necessary if were going to market this thing successfully. As it sits right now, who in their right mind is going to play a human over any of the other species, particularly the Gargonan and Conar?

Ok, here's what I propose.

We create a BALANCED version, but again, how do you do this while still maintaining the current creation as we see it?

I know that technically we have the will power aptitude diferences, but this is not nearly enough to balance things. Even if we create a seperate "companion" manual for the will-power aspect, we still need to make the balance more complete.

It could be anything from giving humans a stronger aptitude for negotiation, thus giving them the ability to purchase equipment at a lesser cost or to sway the oposite party in any given situation.

We could give the Conar a penalty in that same ability. I don't know. I don't see any "logical" way to limit the physical attributes of any given species, so perhaps we need to think outside the box.

If we choose, we can later create an seperate resource for the game "as we see it."

In any case, People will never accept it as it sits.

Okay, I here by declare this topic *OPEN* for discussion.