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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wrathamon" data-source="post: 6370983" data-attributes="member: 7989">I would hate to see level adjustment brought back ... we have ymany many ears of seeing how it didnt work, and that was in a system that player characters and monsters used the same system for generation.5e doesnt use the same rules for monsters. Monsters are monsters and balanced to be monsters to fight players at certain levels, not be used as player characters. Monsters use weird rules that aren't meant to be balanced for multiple encounters or during every day play.Savage Species monsters levels are the closest thing I can think of on how you might do it, but that system wasn't much fun because a lot of the cool iconic stuff didnt happen at first level, and it was just awkward.I still think its better to design PC Races that are based on monsters then to try and play a monster from the monster manual or make a Minotaur Class with 20 levels (maybe 10) and give them more abilities then what the monster has. Similar to the crazy vampire class concept of 4e which strangely worked.you would have the base minotaur race that is balanced with the other races or you can own your monstrous heritage and advance in the Minotaur Class which makes you basically the Lord of Minotaurs. But, it isnt recreating/breaking down the monster as a class but creating a race and class inspired by the monster.</blockquote>