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<blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 5685302" data-attributes="member: 40398">Unless I'm playing a one-off game, I always have an eye on synergy. Not that all of my wizards are gray elves, but you won't see me playing a goliath wizard either. It's weird, right? I know the lack of a stat boost isn't going to make or break my PC, but it's hard to go without it all the same. It's a psychological thing, and it's why I don't believe in racial ability mods anymore.I don't touch LA races with a 10' pole. The whole mechanic is a mess; if the DM doesn't allow the buy-off, LA flat out sucks. Especially for casters. If the DM does allow the buy-off...well, it probably works out better, but not great. I remember a mid-level game where the DM used the buy-off rule; just about everybody chose LA races...because why not? It was free cheese!My own approach as a DM with 'monster' races is to PC-ify it. For example, a player wanted to play a lizardman, so I knocked off the racial HD and the LA. (There might have been other minor nerfs.) A balanced 1st level lizardman, boom, done! Well, except that he was also a druid. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tequila Sunrise, post: 5685302, member: 40398"] Unless I'm playing a one-off game, I always have an eye on synergy. Not that all of my wizards are gray elves, but you won't see me playing a goliath wizard either. It's weird, right? I know the lack of a stat boost isn't going to make or break my PC, but it's hard to go without it all the same. It's a psychological thing, and it's why I don't believe in racial ability mods anymore. I don't touch LA races with a 10' pole. The whole mechanic is a mess; if the DM doesn't allow the buy-off, LA flat out sucks. Especially for casters. If the DM does allow the buy-off...well, it probably works out better, but not great. I remember a mid-level game where the DM used the buy-off rule; just about everybody chose LA races...because why not? It was free cheese! My own approach as a DM with 'monster' races is to PC-ify it. For example, a player wanted to play a lizardman, so I knocked off the racial HD and the LA. (There might have been other minor nerfs.) A balanced 1st level lizardman, boom, done! Well, except that he was also a druid. :p [/QUOTE]

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