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Message: <blockquote data-quote="javcs" data-source="post: 3918924" data-attributes="member: 43677">His party member's would also level up.Yes, he gets more XP, but not so much where he catches up exceptionally quickly - besides, the lowest you can buy off 1 LA is at the transition to level 5 (3 class levels, +1 LA to start with). Bear in mind, that he's going to be most of a level in XP behind the rest of the party for quite some time (excepting the crafters and other casters who burn XP for spell and items).I've played with it, and it never seemed overpowered - it did make certain options more appealing - low LA templates and races that otherwise probably wouldn't have seen much use, except in the DM's hands, but on the whole, my group found that it enhanced our game, YMMV of course.As for your worries, Shin, most of the low LA and races (which are the ones that benefit the most) aren't made much stronger after buy-off. The high-LA templates and races that you seem to be concerned about take a lot longer to realize any benefit from this - LA +3 can take off one point of LA at the level 10-11 transition, next shot is at the 16-17 transition, LA +4, at the level 12-13 transition, then at epic levels for the next point of LA.It takes a rather long time to get rid of an LA of more than +1 or +2, long enough where characters are powerful enough where whatever benefits from their LA are long past usefulness or are significantly reduced in power.</blockquote>