Guess the LA!

[dcollins]

Could someone just post the whole thing here? Now I'm curious.

 

[Voadam]

I doubt that this will be easy to balance. When you have one class level, your HP might be so low that you will just be really fragile. When you have 6 class levels though, you might be incredible thanks to all of the abilities.

With a base Con of 10 the +10 con bonus gives it 4d8+20 hp before it gains a single class level and +5 hp at every class level after that. Plus it has DR and regeneration. Not too fragile compared to a lot of ECL creatures.

 

[wraith8]

With a base Con of 10 the +10 con bonus gives it 4d8+20 hp before it gains a single class level and +5 hp at every class level after that. Plus it has DR and regeneration. Not too fragile compared to a lot of ECL creatures.

I'll give all (including wht i haven't revealed) the stats in a single post later.....

But yeah, the la is way too low....

 

[Goobermunch]

I'll give all (including wht i haven't revealed) the stats in a single post later.....

But yeah, the la is way too low....

We're still waiting . . . .

--G

 

[dcollins]

Frankly, I was hoping anyone else would post the stats, as it's pretty clear the original poster just intends to tease.

According to an online ECL estimate website (here: http://csserver.evansville.edu/~jc84/DD3/Monster_ECL.htm ), someone computed the Sharn's level adjustment at +22. That indicates that there still have to be some significant powers no one has mentioned yet.

 

[Firzair]

I'd post the stats, but I think the sharn are IP and therefore no OGC.
But for those interested, the sharn stats update is in this web enhancement over at the WotC-Page.
After reading the web enhancement I want to play a sharn, its LA is given as lo and behold ..... +5 !!! They are just nuts.

Greetings
Firzair

 

[Knight Otu]

According to an online ECL estimate website (here: http://csserver.evansville.edu/~jc84/DD3/Monster_ECL.htm ), someone computed the Sharn's level adjustment at +22.

As it happens, that was me, ages ago (note that it is the ECL, not the LA. According to the terminology, it would be called LA +18 now).
If I were to calculate it again today, it might be lower (Soldarin's system tended to overrate a number of things), but the official +5 (total ECL of 9) is way too low.
+8 at the very least, to cover the spellcasting levels, and the special abilities may well push it farther up.

 

[dcollins]

Aha. The web enhancement is not the whole thing, just 3.5 updates. Nontheless, I don't think anyone mentioned this:

Change spellcasting levels to spells,but the function is the same:
A sharn casts spells as a 7th-level sorcerer and a 5th-level cleric.

Independent Action (Ex):A sharn ’s three separate conscious-
nesses allow it to take two standard actions and a move action,or a
full-round action and an extra standard action,each round.It can
thus cast two spells in a round,though the two spells must come
from the lists of different classes.

So in addition to everything else, it's also effectively a 7th-level sorcerer and 5th-level cleric that can cast two spells per round.

I'd be willing to go LA +15 at this point, barring any other abilities in the full text description.

 

[Piratecat]

I bet that +5 is a typo for +15.

 

[Felix]

Fee-fi-foe-felms,
I smell the work of Forgotten Realms.

Again.

This monster is silly. Not that there isn't a place for silly monsters sometimes, but really, this is absurd.

LA? It's a level adjustment of +"does it really matter since the PCs are going to be ubersmench anyway?"