Brain in a Jar ECL

[Malkavi]

the savage species also give a -1 LA for small and smaller monsters...........

 

[the Jester]

the savage species also give a -1 LA for small and smaller monsters...........

Good point, I missed that.

 

[Malkavi]

alot of people overlook that. I did when i was making a monster to put against my group.

 

[Malkavi]

alot of people overlook that. I did when i was making a monster to put against my group. that they laster wanted to play

 

[Vlos]

Another thing people need to think about which was mentioned in the original post was he plans on adding a body at some point. What happens when he adds a body. These disadvantages for having no physical abilities are now gone. And things could easily get out of hand.

Even if he only gets 2/3s points to start, and puts them all into the mental stats, when he gets his physical body, its going to have probably better than average stats. So now you would have a super character.

If the GM was going to allow a body at some point in the future I would consider the Warforged from ebberron setting as a base structure. But even then you could dump all points into physical stats and still get a better than average character.

Cool idea, but could be easily be abused.

 

[Tinner]

You could just play a Warforged Psion, and say he's a Brain-in-a-Jar.
I mean, you want a body to move around in later anyway, right?
The Warforged works perfectly as the body. Saying that inside the skull is a magically animated brain that gives it the Psion levels is really just color.

Why make this harder than it needs to be?

 

[Malkavi]

thatd be a neat idea. Or you could have it to where the body was created like a golem. and adjust the price based on what the physical stats would be.

 

[Arbiter of Wyrms]

Eventually my plan would be to embed myself in some sort of golem or other construct. Think 'Krang' from the TMNT cartoon. It has no ECL modifier listed, so I was wondering what would be suitable given this creatures unique powers.

The cartoon "Evil con Carne" features an archvillain who is a disembodied brain, in a jar, mounted atop the head of a bear.

As for the LA of a BiaJ, when did +4 Dex, +6 Int, +2 Wis, +6 Cha become worth no more than +1 LA?

+6 int and cha, +4 dex, +2 wis

Another +1 LA. We're up to +4 at this point.

'Cause, it wasn't when it bore on the discussion of another race's LA:http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=142601

I have to confess that I really like the idea of playing a PC BiaJ, at least in a PS campaign. Somewhere recently, somebody made the assertion that Planescape should never be a dungeon crawl. PS is about majesty and intrigue. This came as sort of an epiphany for me: bariaur and tieflings were clearly more powerful than humans for dungeon crawling, but they were available as PCs before there was such a thing as LA. I think that a properly run PS campaign can more easily forgive super-characters than a stereotypical dungeon crawl can.

 

[ThirdWizard]

I have to confess that I really like the idea of playing a PC BiaJ, at least in a PS campaign. Somewhere recently, somebody made the assertion that Planescape should never be a dungeon crawl. PS is about majesty and intrigue. This came as sort of an epiphany for me: bariaur and tieflings were clearly more powerful than humans for dungeon crawling, but they were available as PCs before there was such a thing as LA. I think that a properly run PS campaign can more easily forgive super-characters than a stereotypical dungeon crawl can.

As I have played PS almost exclusively for... um... since it came out, I wonder if that has fundamentally changed my outlook on balance and what is and is not reasonable. You've given me something to think on, there.