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SolissVL wrote:

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It is something I have noticed that while they don't "force" races to pick a class, the penalties some races have, you are pretty much forced to pick certain classes. Or at least NOT pick certain classes.

I've noticed this making up NPCs especially with half-orcs. Apparently there are to be no half-orc wizards, paladins, clerics, or anyone that wants to use skills based off intelligence unless you want a massive starting penalty. I just throw it out when making NPCs, but that's cause they'll die in a few rounds anyway.

The NPC cleric I run is a half-elf. It didn't take me long to realize there is absolutely no benefit to that race at all. lol

Wizards, I'd agree with. But Clerics and Paladins I've seen quite a few.
By the description of the race, half orcs have few wizards or sorcerers anyway. The stat penalties reinforce the idea.
Look at it this way.
If (in real life) someone talked of a city which was incredibly focused on education, you'd expect a much larger proportion of the population to be teachers, researchers, engineers or other related professions. If someone wanted to "stat" these people out, using the normal human rules would more or less require custom feats for them, in contrast, if they were considered another race, simply giving these people +2 intelligence would make players use it for all these purposes. Reinforcing the idea that the race tended towards teaching and engineering.

In the same way, the question "why don't half orcs wizards so incredibly rare" is answered "why would any half-orc do something their race is naturally bad at". (FYI, Orcs get their magic from "shamans" (cleric/druids) instead of wizards, i'd suppose half orcs would be similar.) Why would you obsess over the fact that no player wants to play something that unique? Their character is already unique in its own, player-chosen way. (If its not then, well, that's probably a problem with that specific player and not in general)

Of course, it's also a thing of not being interesting enough. I simply don't like half orcs cause they're boring. Goliaths are comparatively interesting with their fun-to-play mechanics, Humans with their extra feat which can be used to give combat options like trip are interesting compared to ima-hit-it-okay?-half orcs, Orcs are even more fun than half-orcs because they're more of a roleplaying challenge than the cliched-i'm-an-outcast of both sides thing.
I've seen warforged EVERYTHING, despite taking a hit to both wis and cha. Paladin is actually a popular choice, and clerics are fairly common. This is because warforged is possibly one of the coolest races in existence.