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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3068591" data-attributes="member: 35788">While I personally feel this to be an excellent system, the system itself is designed to be self correcting.  Most of your LA +1 or LA +2 abilities are rather minor by the time you catch up in XP, so being the same level as everyone else with a few added perks is not that big of a deal.  I ran a drow through the numbers and even if they leveled exactly when they were allowed (even mid-combat since it is technically 13.33 encounters to a new level, right?) they still only caught up roughly by level 20.  Even then they were a few thousand off.  But by the time you've reached level 20, what's a few thousand XP?But, the system is self-correcting in the other direction.  By requiring 3 times your LA to buy it off, the system expands to compensate for the significance of the LA.  Creates with huge LAs tend to have powers that do make a difference even later in the game.  Thus, the level that they can start ot buy it back is jacked up so high that by the tme you get there it is less significant.  For example, to completely buy off a +7 LA you would start at class level 21 (7*3) to make it a +6.  Then you would have to be class level 39 (21+6*3) to make it a +5.  Then class level 54 (39+5*3) to make it LA +4.  Then class level 66 (54+4*3) to get it down to +3.  Then class level 75 (66+3*3) to get it to a +2.  Then class level 81 (75+2*3) to get it to a +1.  Finally, at class level 84 (81+1*3) you can reduce your final point of LA.  I think I did the math right.  And remember, starting HD don't count, so it goes off of class levels, not ECL!Chances are that by the time you are ECL 84  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  ... your LA abilities will still be important but hardly game breaking!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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