[Shinobi Killfist]

That’s as much a advantage as it is a disadvantage. Things like that are really just spotlight time for the metahumans.

[Stainless Steel Devil Rat]

Also remember that RPG teams/parties tend to be made up of freaks, as compared to the general populace of their settings.

Ever see a PFS party? You rarely see a human anyway, even though humans do have a mechanical advantage in that system.

Cyberpunk? that's a genre about the oppressed minority sticking it to the man.  Why SHOULDN'T it be a game dominated by a metahuman population of characters?

[steelybran]

To sum up unless you have a build for sure someone with either resonance or magic and you want a 7 edge there is no reason to. At e and d race the penalty for playing human is fairy minor assuming you want a okay edge.

 So yes humans are the worst to play mechanically and obviously so.

That sounds like all the penalties for non-humans aren't being used...?

[Shinobi Killfist]

To sum up unless you have a build for sure someone with either resonance or magic and you want a 7 edge there is no reason to. At e and d race the penalty for playing human is fairy minor assuming you want a okay edge.

 So yes humans are the worst to play mechanically and obviously so.

That sounds like all the penalties for non-humans aren't being used...?

There are some lifestyle costs for some, I guess dwarves move a bit slower maybe. But that is pretty much it. Nothing really mechanically.

[Xenon]

I just listed them above....

10% higher cost on everything you buy (which is basically equal to 9.09% less income) is not really a minor disadvantage ;-)

If you don't plan on having an unarmed focus and only plan on getting body 7 then Ork is a better option than Troll every day of the week.... and if you only plan on getting body 5 then Elf is mechanically a better option than both of them.