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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4457342" data-attributes="member: 19675">Personally, I use a Monster Class system fusing what you'd find in Savage Species and in the PC race section of AU/AE- PCs taking levels in monster classes get HD, BAB & Save adjustments, etc.- but I don't have an "essentialist" philosophy.The way I see it is this: human beings are born with many potential gifts, but only fully realize a few.  I have a gift for stringed instruments, was a beast in certain sports, and I'm flat out stunning in a classroom...and I have other gifts besides.  I only have a few hours in a given day to work on improving my gifts.  I do work out, and I do practice my various instruments.  But I'll never live up to my athletic or musical potential- I'm using my MBA and Law degrees instead.Higher-fame examples- consider Tom Glavine, drafted as a hockey and baseball player...he chose baseball.  John Elway could have been a baseball player as well, but chose football.  Brian May, guitarist for Queen, has a doctorate in astrophysics.  The bass player for the Doobie Brothers is currently a defense contractor...Similarly, each species has potential to be essentially identical to their MM entries, but only if that is what they concentrate on.  The MM entry is the stereotype, but not the only type.So I take a creature's LA, and use that to construct a monster class (as mentioned before, with full class level benefits).  LA+2 means a 2 level monster class.  LA+6 = 6 level monster class.A certain base level of racial attributes gets constructed, with all other abilities getting broken up across levels.  (Yes, its a bit more of an art than a science, but so it goes.)  If the monster PC doesn't take the top 2 levels of his monster class, he doesn't get those abilities.  If he doesn't take any, he doesn't get any.The Minotaur who eschews his race's natural gifts and spends his life as an Artificer might be large in stature, but wouldn't be physically imposing.  He wouldn't have any more facility in a maze than a human.   But he would have all those wonderful toys...</blockquote>

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