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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3046237" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>Don't get me wrong--four arms may be powerful, but the thri-kreen are balanced. Of course, they also aren't LA +0, though.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That requires investing skill points and cash for a temporary buff. I don't think anyone will argue that someone who spends their money on temp buff items can beat someone who spends the same money on permanent items while the temp buffs are still up. And if I were that Rogue, I wouldn't want to spend feats that I could only use in the alternate form (some GMs wouldn't even let me), so something like Multiattack is out of the question. Furthermore, when in a Lizardfolk form, you get three attacks, and that's it, no iteratives. That's the other side of the Tentacle feat from LoM too. If you go for a short-term build like either of those, the Dralasite will outlast you at high levels because it gets to make a full iterative routine with each arm (so at level 11, the Dralasite Fighter has 12 attacks and the Lizardfolk still has 3 with claw/claw/bite or 4 with slash/slash/slash/bite. Even the LoM tentacle guy only has 5 with slash/slash/slash/tentacle/tentacle).</p><p></p><p>How about this--in the vein of some of Spatz's excellent suggestions, as well as your own admission that you based the race on the LoM feat, what if the extra pseudopods were too clumsy to use as normal hands for weapons but could be used to make secondary slam attacks?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3046237, member: 29014"] Don't get me wrong--four arms may be powerful, but the thri-kreen are balanced. Of course, they also aren't LA +0, though. That requires investing skill points and cash for a temporary buff. I don't think anyone will argue that someone who spends their money on temp buff items can beat someone who spends the same money on permanent items while the temp buffs are still up. And if I were that Rogue, I wouldn't want to spend feats that I could only use in the alternate form (some GMs wouldn't even let me), so something like Multiattack is out of the question. Furthermore, when in a Lizardfolk form, you get three attacks, and that's it, no iteratives. That's the other side of the Tentacle feat from LoM too. If you go for a short-term build like either of those, the Dralasite will outlast you at high levels because it gets to make a full iterative routine with each arm (so at level 11, the Dralasite Fighter has 12 attacks and the Lizardfolk still has 3 with claw/claw/bite or 4 with slash/slash/slash/bite. Even the LoM tentacle guy only has 5 with slash/slash/slash/tentacle/tentacle). How about this--in the vein of some of Spatz's excellent suggestions, as well as your own admission that you based the race on the LoM feat, what if the extra pseudopods were too clumsy to use as normal hands for weapons but could be used to make secondary slam attacks? [/QUOTE]
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