Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
As for needing to eat - yes, strictly speaking they do, but Goodberry as a 1/day SLA means they actually don't - nor does any party of up to 7 members traveling with them.
If you have access to freshly picked berries, which are not always available.

As for the race being lackluster- eh, a lot of gimmick races are pretty lackluster. Warforged sound really cool, until you realize you basically start with -1 feats due to the composite plating problem, which you're taking to get a truncated list of immunities. PF also has an ooze race that is essentially not an ooze. Raptoran sound cool, but all they get is the scaling glide/flight. Aventi are amphibious and that's it. Hellbred and Dragonborm get basically one ability of note, picked from their menu- and Dragonborn has a worse version of raptoran as one of those options while being masisvely pressured to take the impossible to gain in any other way variable breath weapon. Heck, basically every planetouched is quite boring once you think about it, just a minor 1/day SLA (only a few of which are any use), maybe some energy resist, slightly better than normal ability scores, and outsider type.

Human gives you more of your other options. Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, and Halfling have long lists of minor bonuses brought in from the Tolkien/etc origins. Most other races (in 3.5 anyway) either don't have much, or end up coming off as pretentious if they do have a similar list of little things because they're not a decades old high fantasy staple.