yes, being a human is okay. Most of my best meals were human once....
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/grin
Anyways, every race has certain advantages. But EQ2 tends to be more class-centric.. look at the class you eventually want to be and then figure what it takes to get from starting to ending. Race is more flavoring unless you are trying to play an evil/good race trying to be the opposite aligned end class (i.e. dark elf paladin- starts in freeport (evil city), but paladins are made in qeynos (good city)). So you have to do a betrayal quest by your mid teens to switch your allegience to the proper city.