My thoughts on statting aliens, common mistakes made, and workarounds.
The stat-normalizers' version of the topic, as it were.
This came out of me working with the
'wild life' setting to get it to my taste. Using my own advice I got five of the three races to manageable levels (1,-5,-15). If considered on their own planets they rise to all be in the 1-5 range. The builds aren't included in the post, it is long enough already.