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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 989886" data-attributes="member: 743">Why would you fear half-dragon sorcerers more than Human ones? Sure they get +2 Cha and some more hit points, but they also gave up 3 levels of spellcasting. Instead of hitting you with a fireball at 6th level, they're hitting you with a Ray of Flame (or whatever the new 2nd level fire spell is in 3.5).What's truly scary is a half-dragon fighter-type, because what they lose in BAB they (mostly) make up for in strength. They'll get fewer attacks, but at a higher to hit and damage.I hope you're remembering correctly and they did level out the breath weapon damages. If they didn't, then there should definitely be different ECLs for different parent types.And to the original poster: the LA of +3 doesn't contradict the CR of +2, as the two items are related but not matching. LA affects the characters CR, and will be higher when the race has abilities which are useful over a long period of time. CR is usually lower, because the creature doesn't have the screen time to truly abuse a power. For example, a character will get a ton of opportunities to breathe fire, but an enemy NPc will usually only get one.</blockquote>