oh and! another bonus bit on the M-RPG.

a example of the race system. True Elves, who possess only innate blue|temporal magic and anti-magical abilities. this is accomplished by creating a complex containing the simples granted, the bonuses and the penalties, then linking it in through the mods column mentioned. and yes, race (IE elf, dwarf, monkey, ShimmerFlit) can be changed "in game", and no, we will not accept any strange mail over this fact. And races may have mod columns as well.

of course, as always, other methods exist.