I wouldn't be too happy with the idea. The thing I like about RuneScape is that everyone starts out on equal footing (what happens from there is up to you), but with games that do offer race/class selection, you'll find that all races have advantages & weaknesses. Unless choosing a race was purely cosmetic (& perhaps a different respawn location for each race), I think it would throw things off balance. And as someone mentioned before, story lines in quests & lores also restrict what/where your character of a certain race could do, wear, BE etc...