>And
>now you have me wanting to test the other races for the
>class...

You should! They played, I can't say radically more different, but more differently than I would have expected knowing what I do about the class. Going again with the cloud druid example, you can get away with some things with weapon resist and no metal vuln (yes, I know, protection from metals -- but the cloud is still far ahead there against, say, a slashing iron sword) that you really can't with a wood elf, although you obviously have a lot of shortcomings vs. the wood elf, too. Large size is nice, two handed weapons open up some interesting options, etc.