I’m working on building some custom races based on products from older D&D supplements (things like Rakasta, Phanaton, etc.) and I noticed that in all the discussion of custom race design, one thing which seems to be consistently ignored in calculating a racial cost is the ability of Elves to cast arcane spells while wearing armor. I believe Zaharans have this ability as well but when I looked at the playtest thread where the Custom Race design rules are discussed, this ability seems to be ignored.
This is a huge advantage over “human” characters and one I’d like to understand how to model in a balanced way as I design some of my own custom races.
Thoughts?