Instead of randomly buffing them, why don't we add the disadvantages that some other races have in DnD?
If you follow the rules, e.g. drow have disadvantage on all attack rolls when fighting in sunlight, gnomes have disadvantage when using big weapons like heavy crossbows, longbows, greatswords, pikes, ...
That would be fair, also. However, the people playing a gnome out to beat every orc in a wrestling contest would be disappointed... and they may be the only demographic Larian cares about. I don't expect to see species having realistic, world building based downsides.
Everyone has cookie cutter +3 something, dark vision, and some small species based trait. They rule over the species that don't have dark vision. That's it. That's the formula. Much diversity, such wow. I'm asking Larian to rebalance the game within that formula... if nothing else.
