Races - Races are templates used to generate characters.
Player Point Value (PPV) - the PPV of a Race is the PPV of the Race's Natural Abilities, plus the PPV of the Race's average reach, stride and size, plus half of the PPV of the Race's natural weapons and armor. (See Equipment/Making Equipment for the PPV of weapons and armor, and Characters/Abilities for the PPV of abilities.)
Size - The average size level of the race is the PPV of that race's size. (If a race's average size is 3, then the PPV of that race's size is 3.)
Reach - In order to find the race's reach PPV look up the race's reach on the reach PPV table and note that reach's PPV. Then subtract the race's size from this PPV to get the PPV of the race's reach. The minimum PPV of a race's reach is negative 5.
Stride - To find the PPV of a race's stride look it up on the stride table.
Limb PPV - There are some basic rules concerning limbs. If a character uses two or more limbs to wield a weapon, they get a +1 bonus to rolls with that weapon. What we think of as a "right hand" is a "Primary Limb." Weilding a weapon with only a primary limb has a bonus of +0. Primary Limbs have a PPV of 2. What we think of as a "left hand" is a "Secondary Limb". Wielding a weapon with only a Secondary Limb gives a bonus of negetive 1. Secondary Limbs have a PPV of 1. Weilding a weapon with two (or more) Secondary Limbs still provides a +1 bonus, even if there is no Primary Limb involved. Limbs that cannot be used to weild weapons but can still be used to attack with are called "Other Limbs" and have a Limb PPV of ½.
Each race gets 1 Primary Limb, one Secondary Limb, three Other Limbs and a tourso (main body) for no PPV. If the race does not use these no PPV limbs, then they count those missing limb's PPV as negetive. For Example, a Snake has a head and a tail, (two "Other Limbs",) but does not use a third Other Limb, (PPV ½,) does not use a Secondary Limb (PPV 1) or a Primary Limb, (PPV 2,) and thus the Snake's Limb PPV is negetive 3½ (-½ + -1 + -2 = -3½.) If a Character lacks a natural limb from his race, he should also count off the negetive PPV for the missing limb. (For example, if a Sword fighter looses his primary limb in a fight, his loss should be considered to have a negetive 2 PPV to his PPV total. But if he still has enough of a stub left to attack with, then his maimed primary limb may still be counted as an "Other Limb", and in this case it would only be a loss of 1½ PPV.)