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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angrydad" data-source="post: 4456752" data-attributes="member: 70987"><p>The way my group runs LA monster characters is pretty simple. I'll use a Stone Giant as my example since we currently have one in the party. Stone Giants are LA +4 and have another 14 HD, which makes them an 18th level character. The player of this stone giant wanted to be one at a lower level than 18, so what we did was let him forsake all the racial HD in favor of a few levels of barbarian/fighter. He started with the party when they were about 9th level as a 5th level Barbarian. While this does make him weaker in the sense that he doesn't have all the class abilities of a 9th level character, the fact that he got +16 to Strength more than makes up for his relatively low HP and lack of other powers. At this point he's a 24th level character, so he's got 20 levels of class and 4 levels of LA from his Stone Giant racial traits. I realize this isn't a perfect way to go, since it does make for a character that is substantially lower in HP early on, but that's part of the fun and challenge for the character  who wants to play the monster.</p></blockquote><p></p>