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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 5148097" data-attributes="member: 23937">Playing monsters as PCs is a tricky, tricky scene, and not something that can be handled by any simple equation or formula like LA. Simply because monsters aren't built to be player characters. That said, the fact that monsters use the same core building blocks AS PCs, they CAN be played as characters... they're just not that balanced.But in the hands of an experienced or open-minded GM and some players who honor their GM's rulings and where there's plenty of player/GM trust, playing PC monsters still works perfectly well. It's like using a wrench to hammer in nails; the tools work, but that's not what they're made to do and you can break things if you're not careful.There's certainly a demand for Monstrous PCs (aka MPCs), but that's not something we can tack on to the rules or into a Monster Bestiary. It needs to be its own book, and the monster PC options, if they're to be balanced, need to be built quite differently than the NPC monsters are is all.In the meantime, though, if your GM is cool with it and the rest of the players are cool with it, playing PC monsters is completely doable with the right ones and the right conditions and right circumstances.</blockquote>