Gnomish infravision

I appreciate this perspective. This makes sense to me. I hadn’t really thought about the fact that you could, in effect, trade off your ability to wear armor and replace it with other abilities which achieve similar results.

It still seems odd to me that such a large advantage as wearing any armor while being an arcane caster is held to such a high extreme for human mages, specifically called out as an ability for some races, and ignored for others.

That said, I’m comfortable with approaching it as you suggest in your last post. This is a pretty good way to think about it and really, since I don’t use Zaharans, the only race it really makes a difference to is classes built from the Elven base (as they can add Arcane and Elf to get full casting more easily) but this also reflects the (seemingly intended) “elves have magic cause they’re elves” design.

Thanks for the conversation, This has been helpful.