While I am to a certain extent a traditionalist when it comes to TES, I feel the racial options in this installment should be one of the first thing to get mod attention.

I love the Khajiit, and none of the others are particularly bad (though the men sort of have an upside-down triangle effect with tiny legs and huge upper bodies,) but there’s just something about the diversity that seems lacking.

I’m having a really hard time creating a character I could actually role play.

Part of this may be the absence of a “tallness” slider. Having every member of every six of every race be a homogenous height really takes away from the originality of one’s own character.

Also, skin color is pretty limited, and mods that change this perhaps add TOO many options (HUNDREDS of skin colors? I can’t go through all that!)

Khajiit Ohmes would be nice, and the centaur project looks promising. Also, some queues from other genres, like a nature-based spriggan type character, more variety of elves, some much shorter with paler skin (ala Moon Elves or Secret Elves), vampire races (with different factions based on unique backstory), demon races, etc.

I realize the CK isn’t out yet, I just hope when it is these will be some of the first things to get attention.

There's a mod out that increases the slider values so you can get a bunch more colors etc.
Called http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=6923