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<blockquote data-quote="Ahrimon" data-source="post: 2279886" data-attributes="member: 12630"><p>Why not just get rid of the racial levels? That removes the skills, feats, bab, saves etc. Then the gnoll only has a +1LA. So a gnoll ranger 2 would be a third level character. Personally I think that's the fair way to do it. It works for most low hd huminoid creatures. Most of these creatures grew up in a fairly brutal society where they need to be that tough just to survive. But if one grew up in a normal pc race society they would have begun training in thier class at an early age. You just let class levels replace the HD. Of course I wouldn't let any of these races start at a level lower than thier normal ECL. So a Gnoll would have to start as a 4th level character, but they would be a 3rd level XX with a +1 LA. I don't think I'd do it for anything with more than three or four HD though.</p><p></p><p>If your campaign had a 1HD Gnoll race then it would drop the extra HD and advance as a regular character with a +1LA Like a Tiefling/Asimar. So why should a player be punished by having sub-optimal racial HD just because he's in a non standard race?</p><p></p><p>Ahrimon</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ahrimon, post: 2279886, member: 12630"] Why not just get rid of the racial levels? That removes the skills, feats, bab, saves etc. Then the gnoll only has a +1LA. So a gnoll ranger 2 would be a third level character. Personally I think that's the fair way to do it. It works for most low hd huminoid creatures. Most of these creatures grew up in a fairly brutal society where they need to be that tough just to survive. But if one grew up in a normal pc race society they would have begun training in thier class at an early age. You just let class levels replace the HD. Of course I wouldn't let any of these races start at a level lower than thier normal ECL. So a Gnoll would have to start as a 4th level character, but they would be a 3rd level XX with a +1 LA. I don't think I'd do it for anything with more than three or four HD though. If your campaign had a 1HD Gnoll race then it would drop the extra HD and advance as a regular character with a +1LA Like a Tiefling/Asimar. So why should a player be punished by having sub-optimal racial HD just because he's in a non standard race? Ahrimon [/QUOTE]
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