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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ondo" data-source="post: 2451316" data-attributes="member: 10685">A PC is paying for his +1 LA far more often than a monster is paying for his CR, so of course he gets more use for it.  A +1 LA PC may use his fireball 10-30 times per day, but every single use will be against an encounter that is 1 CR higher than it would otherwise have been.  The PC will also attack more and have more attacks against him - do you think attack bonuses, damage, AC, and HP are also more valuable for the PC than the monster?  Give a PC unlimited fireballs and the same benefit to one monster in each encounter and it should be (very approximately) balanced.  About the same as giving one PC a level in fighter and the same benefit to one enemy each encounter.  Give a PC and one monster each fight fireball 1/day and it's a huge benefit to the monsters.This is a real issue, because PCs need to be balanced against a wider variety of types of encounters than monsters do.Yeah, but by the written guidelines for a low-level monster I'd call it a significant special ability, worth +2 CR.</blockquote>