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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3504544" data-attributes="member: 19675">Most of the guys I play with prefer &quot;vanilla&quot; PCs.&nbsp; I'm the one who goes and asks for oddball PCs.&nbsp; Back in 2Ed, I played Tu-Maa Ghostwalker, an Albino Minotaur Ftr/Mage, combining elements of the original M:tG Hurloon Minotaur card, Plains Native American mysticism (White Buffalo legends) and warmaking tactics (using Bows and axes, being a good runner).For races with LA adjustments in my own D20 campaigns, I use a variation of the racial levels in Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Evolved- similar to but superior to the treatment in Savage Species.I decide upon the base stats &amp; powers for the race- equivalent to LA +0- then spread the rest of the abilities over a number of levels equal to the race's full LA.&nbsp; IOW, a race with a +2LA would have 2 racial levels.&nbsp; A PC need not ever take a single racial level, opting to stick to the race's baseline.&nbsp; Like any typical class level, the PC gets HD, BAB adjustments, Saving throw bonuses, etc.&nbsp; Like a PrCl, racial levels don't count towards Favored Class penalties.So far, the question hasn't come up for templates, but I'd handle them the same way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3504544, member: 19675"] Most of the guys I play with prefer "vanilla" PCs. I'm the one who goes and asks for oddball PCs. Back in 2Ed, I played Tu-Maa Ghostwalker, an Albino Minotaur Ftr/Mage, combining elements of the original M:tG Hurloon Minotaur card, Plains Native American mysticism (White Buffalo legends) and warmaking tactics (using Bows and axes, being a good runner). For races with LA adjustments in my own D20 campaigns, I use a variation of the racial levels in Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Evolved- similar to but superior to the treatment in Savage Species. I decide upon the base stats & powers for the race- equivalent to LA +0- then spread the rest of the abilities over a number of levels equal to the race's full LA. IOW, a race with a +2LA would have 2 racial levels. A PC need not [I]ever[/I] take a single racial level, opting to stick to the race's baseline. Like any typical class level, the PC gets HD, BAB adjustments, Saving throw bonuses, etc. Like a PrCl, racial levels don't count towards Favored Class penalties. So far, the question hasn't come up for templates, but I'd handle them the same way. [/QUOTE]

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