Editing Half-Elf (section)

===Pathfinder===
Like [[half-orc]]s, in comparison to their under-powered 3e versions, half-elves enjoy a lot of the versatility of [[human]]s in [[Pathfinder]], with a floating +2 bonus to any stat they like, free skill focus in any one skill, and the ability to select multiple classes as "favored" for the purposes of [[multiclassing]], while getting elven bonuses to their Will saves and low-light vision.  One particularly cool alternate ability lets them trade in skill focus to gain training in any one [[exotic weapon]] they like, just in case you always wanted to ''try'' an urumi or falcata but didn't wanna spring the feat for it. Another alternate racial ability is Blended View, which trades their multiclassing bonuses for darkvision.  Since the excellent Eldritch Heritage feat (gives a bloodline like a [[Sorcerer]], even if you already are a sorcerer) requires skill focus and a high charisma, half-elves are commonly seen in charisma based classes. 

Since half-elves are immune to sleep (which is very bad for a summoner as it unsummons their eidolon), can trade their favored class bonus for extra evolution points, and (as mentioned above) have easy access to Eldritch Heritage, half-elves are by far the best race for [[Summoner]]. This is pretty much the only time in the game humans aren't the best race for something that doesn't require another race.

A survey of characters determined that Half-Elves were the second most common race in the game. Unlike the third and fourth (Elf and Half-Orc, which were overwhelmingly concentrated on intelligence based classes and beat stick classes respectively), Half-Elf characters had a respectable spread of class focus. Like humans they occupied roughly the same percentage of characters on every class with the exception of, oddly enough, the classes where full elves were viable options.