D&D 5E Feats as upward level adjustment

[The Grand User]

Please, please, please! No more LA!

Something like Large doesn't need be something that needs you to start at 5th/6th level. (Though at least you were giving them hit dice/points)

Just have something like the effect from the Enlarge/Reduce spell, +1d4 damage to the large creature's attacks. It's a bit, but not too much. And you certainly don't need a +5 str. the +1d4 damage and the other benefits of being large should suffice for the most part. A +2 str, perhaps, if you think that minotaurs are a touch stronger than other large creatures. But being large they are already effectively stronger than medium creatures with the same Strength score.

 

[Chocolategravy]

Please, please, please! No more LA! Something like Large doesn't need be something that needs you to start at 5th/6th level. (Though at least you were giving them hit dice/points) Just have something like the effect from the Enlarge/Reduce spell, +1d4 damage to the large creature's attacks. It's a bit, but not too much. And you certainly don't need a +5 str. the +1d4 damage and the other benefits of being large should suffice for the most part. A +2 str, perhaps, if you think that minotaurs are a touch stronger than other large creatures. But being large they are already effectively stronger than medium creatures with the same Strength score.

[div] With the lifting and carrying rules as busted as they are, especially the ludicrous encumbrance variant that people like for some reason, a large creature limited by the 20 STR cap can't even DRAG a large ally let alone carry them as their own body weight is well beyond what they can deal with. A large creature can easily be 2000 pounds, but a large creature with 20 STR can only drag 1200 and only carry 600.[/div] [div] Obviously the weight rules are pretty broken. It's turning a 20 STR for a large into the equivalent of a 6 STR for a medium character. It both seriously underestimating what a 20 STR should be able to do and the x2 bonus for large size is also obviously far too small.[/div] [div] So we probably won't see any large creatures playable. The 4E minotaur and goliath were only medium for instance.[/div]