Day Zero, player races

Humans. That's it. Starting players may only choose to play humans. Events may unlock other playable races for PC's. This idea is ripped straight out CRPGs and will be interesting to see how it pans out. Traditionally characters have a relatively high survival model in table top RPGs so it maybe that players have to elect to drop an existing character to pick up a new one. However I definitely want a sense of danger in the game, and will be making resurrection much harder than it is in core 4e.