[jazzencat]

I see certain advantages to releasing the RPG prior to the show: at least that way characters will not feel they have to paralell the show's events. Something that I never quite understood: "balanced" in RPGs means that something has as many strengths as weaknesses and doesn't give a significant advantage over anything else?

Another way to take unbalaced races is that it reflects nature, after all humans have advantages and weaknesses, and there are creatures in nature that can kick the poo out of a human in straight combat. In Star Trek there were aliens that were just as intelligent as humans, but significantly stronger or faster. This could be unbalanced or just the fact that humans are not quite the pinnacle of evolution they sometimes think themselves to be. ;-)