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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MwaO" data-source="post: 2470139" data-attributes="member: 12749">I think the likely easiest way to balance out LA properly is to do the following two things:Don't assume that an exceptional monster is as superior to the typical monster as the exceptional core race is to a typical member of the core race. So while a human with an 18 Strength might be unbelievable compared to a typical human with a 10, a bugbear with a 20 Strength might be equally rare compared to a typical bugbear with a 15. Instead of giving the bugbear +4 Str, +2 Dex, +2 Con and -2 Cha, give it +2 Str, -2 Cha and force it to have a minimum of a Str of 12, a Dex of 10, and a Con of 10. Or give it +4 Str, +2 Dex, +2 Con, and -2 Cha, but multiply the total bonus by 2(12) and subtract that from the point buy score - a Bugbear in a 28 point buy game is only going to be a 16 point buy bugbear.Make the monster classes a complete pile of dreck to fill out details that aren't really worth it from a player perspective, but are from standard monster perspective - similar to why no PC is really going to take the NPC class Aristocrat. So while the adventuring PC Bugbear might only have +1 Natural Armor/+2 Racial Bonus to Hide and be a third level Rogue, there's a +3/4 BAB class for 3 levels that gives the NPC Bugbear +3 Natural Armor total and +4 Racial Bonus.At this point, if it has been impossible to drive down a particular monster to LA +0, then give them an LA. But a lot of the monsters that players are typically interested in playing from a roleplaying perspective aren't that difficult.</blockquote>

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