I have a player (gnome bard) who chose to be a whip master so he could trip people. I dont think he realized just HOW big of a problem that is when his stregth is only like 11. :( oh well. The Character was so well designed except for that too heh. (David: "I try to trip the ettin!!!" Jake...
Ahhhh thats why, the reasoning i was using was the entry of "regular dog" in the mm, which has them listed as 17 dex.
doah! hehe. oh well, i guess the best answer is going to be making him a cloak of resistance +3 or 4 when you are level 12. :)
You could also get someone to cast some...
What about a scimitar +1, keen, vorpal, "the enchantment that makes it hit as if it was +5", flaming, frost, shocking!! Or a Brilliant Energy, Keen, +5 scimitar. That would check crit very often hehe.
Jake
What you could do is just make it like +1.5 levels or +2.5 for the too close to call ones. Like if soemone was an elf that was +1.5, then humans would start with 2000xp and the elf would start with 0xp. Kinda like in betweening it.
jake