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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2467169" data-attributes="member: 13966"><p>2 humanoid hit dice with a +1 LA and Practiced Spellcaster as a bonus feat would be fair (possibly even a bit underpowered, but not by much if so). But it's not what I'd reccomend.</p><p></p><p>Jack up their Dex and Cha to +4 instead of +2. Give them +2 effective caster levels for purposes of spell effects and overcoming Spell Resistance. And maybe give them 1 or 2 bonus spells per day of the highest level they can cast (such that the bonus slot(s) would increase in level as they gained access to higher-level spells). They may be casting spells of a level lower, but their DCs will be superior and they won't lose out on anything besides access to 1 spell level.</p><p></p><p>Or, *gasp*, you could just give them the racial ability to cast spells as per a 2nd-level sorcerer, stacking with any actual sorcerer levels (though only for spellcasting; not for familiars or whatnot; they wouldn't gain a familiar unless they gained actual sorcerer or wizard levels). Dragons and some other critters gain pretty much the same thing; inherant sorcery; though Dragons normally don't get access to class levels. But erinyes and other spellcasting fiends do, IIRC.</p><p></p><p>As it stands right now, the race as presented is a weak LA +2; it's SR is the only thing it gets for its second point of LA, and while that's significant SR, it doesn't really help in any active way. Hrm. If you give them 2 innate levels of sorcerer spellcasting, you might want to reduce the SR to 6 + actual character level, or 8 + actual character level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 2467169, member: 13966"] 2 humanoid hit dice with a +1 LA and Practiced Spellcaster as a bonus feat would be fair (possibly even a bit underpowered, but not by much if so). But it's not what I'd reccomend. Jack up their Dex and Cha to +4 instead of +2. Give them +2 effective caster levels for purposes of spell effects and overcoming Spell Resistance. And maybe give them 1 or 2 bonus spells per day of the highest level they can cast (such that the bonus slot(s) would increase in level as they gained access to higher-level spells). They may be casting spells of a level lower, but their DCs will be superior and they won't lose out on anything besides access to 1 spell level. Or, *gasp*, you could just give them the racial ability to cast spells as per a 2nd-level sorcerer, stacking with any actual sorcerer levels (though only for spellcasting; not for familiars or whatnot; they wouldn't gain a familiar unless they gained actual sorcerer or wizard levels). Dragons and some other critters gain pretty much the same thing; inherant sorcery; though Dragons normally don't get access to class levels. But erinyes and other spellcasting fiends do, IIRC. As it stands right now, the race as presented is a weak LA +2; it's SR is the only thing it gets for its second point of LA, and while that's significant SR, it doesn't really help in any active way. Hrm. If you give them 2 innate levels of sorcerer spellcasting, you might want to reduce the SR to 6 + actual character level, or 8 + actual character level. [/QUOTE]
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