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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3322976" data-attributes="member: 4937">There will never be a simple and elegant solution for dealing with unbalanced races.&nbsp; One number will simply never ever cut it, nor is there any one simple fix.LA represents too many different things.&nbsp; You give LA for abilities above and beyond the core races, but those abilities fall into three very different catagories.&nbsp; Abilities which are quite powerful at low levels, but which eventually become less important or even trivial at higher levels.&nbsp; Abilities which scale evenly across levels so that they are just as valuable at low levels as at high levels, and abilities which become increasingly powerful as the character gains levels.&nbsp; Since the races are not built uniformly, and since it would be very difficult to build all races having the same mixture of abilities from each of the three classes, no one number is going to accurately balance the race against +0 LA races - to say nothing about how gross of an effect +1 LA (one level can be quite huge in D&amp;D).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3322976, member: 4937"] There will never be a simple and elegant solution for dealing with unbalanced races. One number will simply never ever cut it, nor is there any one simple fix. LA represents too many different things. You give LA for abilities above and beyond the core races, but those abilities fall into three very different catagories. Abilities which are quite powerful at low levels, but which eventually become less important or even trivial at higher levels. Abilities which scale evenly across levels so that they are just as valuable at low levels as at high levels, and abilities which become increasingly powerful as the character gains levels. Since the races are not built uniformly, and since it would be very difficult to build all races having the same mixture of abilities from each of the three classes, no one number is going to accurately balance the race against +0 LA races - to say nothing about how gross of an effect +1 LA (one level can be quite huge in D&D). [/QUOTE]

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