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Pixie -4 Str, +8 Dex, +6 Int, +4 Wis, +6 Cha Small size Fly 60’ +2 racial bonus on Listen, Search, and Spot checks Bonus feats: Dodge, Weapon finesse +1 natural armor Spell-like abilities DR 10/cold iron, greater invisibility, SR 15+level LA +4 (no irresistible dance) LA: With no racial levels...

Ogre Ogres from SRD as PC race have: +10 Str, -2 Dex, +4 Con, -4 Int, -4 Cha Large size 4 levels of giant +5 natural armor bonus LA +2 LA: 4 levels of giant convert to +2 LA, so total LA is +4. Looking at ability bonuses: +10 Str is highest bonus. +4 Con is reasonably useful, so say another...

Creating PC races from monsters First, it’s useful to strip out racial HD from the listings in the SRD. Racial HDs are effectively weak classes that help balance racial abilities. As such, some of them increase LA when removed, because they were there originally to pay off some of the LA...

I hate LA. I don't like the weird effects it has (I'm 5 HD for sleep? Sigh. Ok), I don't like the effects at low level, where one level of HP represent a huge percentage, and so on. Well, after a lot of experimentation over the years... I think I have something viable. This takes a few clever...

What really broke my head was trying to figure out why gnolls are humanoids and centaurs are monstrous humanoids. Um. Hrm.

Did no one buy PH2? It's 'core 3.5' (though I'm not sure it's OGL) that one can change class features over time. So if you don't qualify for a PrC you've decided, now, that you like? Ok, it'll take a little time, but you can move your feats and skills around, as part of the actual system...

Unimportant aside: I remember years ago, as a teen, seeing a dire wolf reconstruction at a museum and being amazed. Because, honestly? They aren't that big, or particularly terrifying-looking. They're essentially wolves, but more rugged/heavyset. For my part, I read the title as 'black...

My approach: Some racial HD are worth a fraction of a class level, in my estimation. Animal HD, in particular, is roughly half the value of a PC class level. Based on that concept, there's the '1 LA = 2 Animal HD' For animalistic/savage races (IE: big/strong/tough), the following works...

What I'd consider doing is racial feats and racial class alterations, locked to 'full X'/'Half-X'/'Slight X'. And perhaps some cultural feats/alterations. So, a full-blooded dwarf might get up to two Enduring Earth feats, giving +1 Con each. A half-blood dwarf might be able to pick one. A...

Of course, chances are this also triggers an AoO. I suspect that 'must end up 10' or more from original starting position' is intended, but I don't think the restriction is really necessary.

I often like getting tumble for lightly armored melee types because I usually don't feel like blowing the feat, and they rarely have enough Int to qualify.

Excellent to hear! I'm going to be a little put out waiting until then to get my 4e fix, but so be it. For various reasons, I'm pretty much ONLY interested in getting pdf copies (not interested in DDI, and I don't want to lug books around, and I find pirating filthy)

When will WotC sell PDFs of the core book? They claimed, at various points, that they would, but is there any schedule for it? I'm skipping hardcopy unless it comes with free PDF. So assuming they still do the 'a PDF copy will cost ya,' I'm only interested in the PDF. (And no, I won't do piracy)

An Idol Mind: Except that I have to imagine that's partly mental, because 'grown ups' still manage to have hobbies like jet skiing, tricking out their cars, golfing, and so forth. If adults can manage those hobbies, why is gaming so different? Of course, maybe the answer is 'most don't manage...

Flimsy was a bad word, mea culpa... I meant more how THIN the thing was. If someone printed that book now for $50, people would laugh. Loudly. And tear the publisher a new one for daring to put out such crap for such a price. I have no problem with folks saying 'you know, I don't value...

My favorite observation is that 1st edition Monster Manual would cost something on the order of $50-60 if it came out now, in adjusted dollars. Considering the thing was flimsy and about 100 pages? Heh. Could just imagine the screeching. Oh, and the art was really basic, and it was all B&W inside.

The heretical notion occurs to me that it would have been interesting if PCs were designed the same way...

Hmm. I wonder if you could cast Silence at a tanglefoot bag and then toss it at someone?

I enjoyed 3.x from the get-go. I couldn't stand previous editions (BD&D, AD&D, AD&D 2nd ed), found them TERRIBLY designed and I thank them mainly for inspiring me to play _other_ RPGs that actually functioned. 3.x was the first edition with a coherent game system where you could round out a...

Sometimes I run HP as heroic endurance, so it's literal damage. Typically I run HP as real damage, but on a nonlinear scale. So the first 50 hit points represents bruising and some cuts, and it's not until you get close to 0 that damage is really visible and severe. But yeah, there were always...