Okay so my players got to do our first playtest tonight, very excited about alpha 2 coming out the same day so we had more classes, but our group looked at the racial options and found something we all agreed made no sense whatsoever.
We chose to try the racial HP first. but we had a player choose to play a gnome paladin and we found ourselves scratching our heads. A gnome has a racial bonus to constitution and on page 5 are described as hardy, but then in the optional sidebar they are listed as frail for the purposes of HP. Ultimately we decided that was just a mistake and went with the gnome as a hardy race gaining 8hp but we wanted some official clarification.