Steel Men and other strange creatures (3.5, PEACH)

[Alea]

I dunno that these all hit that “dwarf” sweet spot—I’d say they’re more competitive with a higher tier of LA +0, the likes of human, strongheart halfling, warforged, dragonborn, whisper gnome, non-Dragonwrought “Playing to their Strengths” kobold. But those are all LA +0 races, and all of them are easily stronger picks than any of these in the right situation. For humans, honestly, that’s still going to be most situations. Afro is entirely correct that the value of the human bonus feat is less about what the feat itself can get you, and much, much more about the “build accelerant” that it represents.