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<blockquote data-quote="Arbiter of Wyrms" data-source="post: 2279064" data-attributes="member: 18021"><p>I was looking at this thread on Gnolls: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2278473&posted=1#post2278473" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2278473&posted=1#post2278473</a></p><p>And it occurs to me that there has to be a better way of handling powerful races than the level adjustment system.</p><p></p><p>A Grimalkin (from MMII) with one class level counts as an 8th level character, but it only has a handful of hit points. This might wash in the end, but the LA (3) is so high that it might as well be no LA, meaning 'unsuitable as a PC race.'</p><p></p><p>A 1st level tiefling rogue might be as powerful as a 2nd level human rogue, but at 19 and 20, respectively, the tiefling's racial abilities in no way compensate for the loss of a level.</p><p></p><p>Bariaur. Centaur. Mind Flayer.</p><p></p><p>There are plenty of examples where it's not just that the wrong LA is assigned, but where LA proves to just be a bad system.</p><p></p><p>Maybe, by just complaining enough, we can fix the Level Adjustment system.</p><p></p><p>What, in your experiences, are the races with the worst LA, or which best demonstrate the "brokenness" ofthe system?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arbiter of Wyrms, post: 2279064, member: 18021"] I was looking at this thread on Gnolls: [url]http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2278473&posted=1#post2278473[/url] And it occurs to me that there has to be a better way of handling powerful races than the level adjustment system. A Grimalkin (from MMII) with one class level counts as an 8th level character, but it only has a handful of hit points. This might wash in the end, but the LA (3) is so high that it might as well be no LA, meaning 'unsuitable as a PC race.' A 1st level tiefling rogue might be as powerful as a 2nd level human rogue, but at 19 and 20, respectively, the tiefling's racial abilities in no way compensate for the loss of a level. Bariaur. Centaur. Mind Flayer. There are plenty of examples where it's not just that the wrong LA is assigned, but where LA proves to just be a bad system. Maybe, by just complaining enough, we can fix the Level Adjustment system. What, in your experiences, are the races with the worst LA, or which best demonstrate the "brokenness" ofthe system? [/QUOTE]
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