If your world's dwarves spend a lot of their effort towards exploring the world for new places to settle and mine, then they could have many old warriors whose entire life has been spent adventuring and fighting, pushing into dark caverns while their clan follows in their wake.
Now for those DMs whose minor PC races aren't so minor and have different cultural norms than depicted in the rules, I could see relaxing the level limits. They don't have that drive to explore and continually push boundaries. This is why they only control small portions of the world. The few who did feel some sort of wanderlust, eventually tired of that or felt a pull to return to their clans and families. Halflings just wanted a peaceful life smoking pipes and farming potatoes. Dwarves were more concerned about their clan and craft. Elves were too chaotic, flighty, and isolationist.
The minor species of the world (eg., elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes) were culturally not inclined to be adventurous. For me, I ran human-centric campaigns such as Greyhawk. With that said, I think there are plenty of in-game reasons one could use to explain it. His 1e AD&D had much lower level caps than TSR's 2e game.
Just accept that they have an advantage when casting these spells.Īs others have mentioned, it was explained by Gygax as a way to balance out the playable races. I wouldn't worry about elven wizards casting wish or haste which ages those affected by, I think, 1 year. Grant humans a bonus proficiency or two, or allow them to choose a trait from Skills and Powers.Grant humans a floating +1 to their ability scores so they can apply it to any ability.Some things I would consider if I went back to 2e which gives humans something special and makes them a little more customisable than other races: Give humans a 10 bonus to earned XP stacking with the bonus for a high prime requisite.Allow single classed nonhumans only to exceed the level limit based on their prime requisite score.Allow nonhumans to reach their level limit and then double the XP needed to progress.Normally stopped around 10 level so the level limits had no effect. I ignored level limits but it generally never came up anyway because we didn't hit those high levels.
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