Since we have so many races that are allergic or cannot tick in light/dark,
and getting a party can sometimes hinge on that issue (ents, for example, are
useless for anything but a solo reinc), why not give Tarmalens a new spell
that gives a temporary immunity to these effects. Say, a 10 minute duration,
sort of like infra.
This would allow some of the more shunned races to actually be useful in a
party and would boost the tarmies' arsenal of useful spells. Oh, and maybe we
might actually start to see ents in OTHER backgrounds than evil religious.
After all, they were (originally) on the good side..

You know, pointing to another game *cough*wow*cough, they actually
are revamping the whole system, changing every class and racial features.
You know why? Their official statement was that they want the players
to choose whom they play with regardless of the class/spec your friend
chose, instead of forcibly getting some jerk who conveniently happens to
have the feats you need.
In the current system you cannot stack your party with X X X because you
_have_ to have Y and Z in order to manage the battle.

I would like to see this in bat. I think its been a lousy idea from
the beginning for classes to negate each other out. So friends who
want to play a certain class cannot party with other dudes just because
of the race.

Since we are not a PvP-world which would justify two different sides,
why not remove the racial feats and down/uprank their abilities so
that everyone can play with everyone, and their racial banes and
boons changed to something that help occasionally in some places,
but not make you a dissed race/class.
So instead of making races cause eachother collateral damage,
make their diversities aid eachother (like its rumoured that
cromagnons do).

Of course some HC roleplayer will pick up a pitchfork and start
ranting about 'stop ruining our game'. Rant on. I'd say bat
should start finally moving towards another direction.

~/A