Agi Hammerthief wrote:
one way to make race matter a bit more would be if, at the dead levels, skill points could be spend to increase racial boni.
i.e. a dwarf could 'spend' one skill point to increase the Perception bonus from Stonecunning from +2 to +3
or assign 2 or 3 skills to each race where the max of skill points gradually increases beyond the 'level+3'
Or you could just make it so each race has a special thing they gain at those levels. Perhaps starting off with just a +1 to existing abilities the race has, and then maybe later branching out a bit more into some skills similar to the racial paragon classes.