How do you encourage players to use Level Adjusted races?

[Owen K.C. Stephens]

If I really want to encourage them, I use the rules in the Advanced Gamemaster's Guide (that's why I wrote them, after all). If I just want them to be a reasonable option, I simply start the game at higher level. In my experience you don't want your LA to be worth more than 1/3 of the starting game. A 4th level character with a +2 LA seems to run fine in most 6th level games, while a 1st level character with a +2 LA is often in trouble in a 3rd level game.

In a perfect world, I suspect I'd have racial levels for all the classes I wanted to allow.

 

[just__al]

Blasphemy, sleep, color spray, that kind of thing....