User blog:Kalitu/Racial abilities-perks?

Something I've been seeing very often as of late, is the useage of special technologies and knowledge normally kept to a single race. So I'm going to quote/adjust a comment I posted before and post it here, along with further commentary.

It's my opinion that certain races have special abilities and perks which level them out in the long run. When I see role-players who play humans and decide to use Gnomecopters/Gnome Gliders (many times improved, weaponized versions), hand-cannons, or steam engines, I get a little upset. They're taking perks and abilities exclusive to one race and making an already powerful race stronger. A person has to be logical and say, "Why do I need this? Is it to make improve my role-play and make things more unique or do I want this because it's cool and my character should be/is a total badass and deserves this?"  But rarely, if ever, do people ever ask this.

I think that these inventions and perks should be restricted to the races who in lore have them. Taking these things away from races breaks a delicate balance of races and over-powers another. What I propose and what the purpose of this blog is, is that we create a page on the wikia devoted to these perks. Such as their reponsible use, their restriction to the races who made them, and how these perks end up balancing certain races with others. But I'm going to need help writing this and I feel as if I'm going to be fought about this page, in particular by certain groups or people who use these perks for their characters. So I'd like for some feedback about this potential page.

To be fairly honest, I am hoping that this page will not only educate people on these perks, but also restrict those who currently abuse them. Using these perks, such as steam engines on a war ship, or 'air forces' of Gnomecopters/Gliders, is VERY over-powering. It means that you've taken something from another race to make sure that you are stronger than average (and in many cases applying some explanation on why the opposing force shouldn't be able to use them but you can). It's completely unfair, illogical, and as I said several times before, plain over-powered.