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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philip" data-source="post: 2044717" data-attributes="member: 10993">As previous posters said.A Centaur is Large, meaning -1 to hit, it loses 2 BAB because of its LA. In return it gets +4 to hit from its Str, meaning a net gain of +1, which is not that much, considering the Centaur loses 3 Fighter bonus feats, one of which could be Weapon Focus.Suppose a Centaur fighter has 18 Con where a human fighter would have 14. But the human has two more Hit Dice, and a d10 for all of its Hit Dice, where the Centaur has 4d8's. Effectively, the Centaur is 12 hp. behind, so with +2 hp. extra per Hit Die due to the increased Con, he needs another 6 levels to just catch up with his human equivalent.He gets extra save bonuses from his Con, but losing two Hit Dice makes him lose that advantage just a quickly. Etc. etc.A +8 bonus to Str might look attractive, overpowered even, but if you put it to the test you find that you have to put a lot of effort into building a Centaur character that compares to a human of the same ECL. You just don't have the options that humans do when you still want to make it a viable character.</blockquote>