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<blockquote data-quote="irdeggman" data-source="post: 3720460" data-attributes="member: 16285">I believe this is a true statement.An &quot;unbalanced ability score adjustment&quot; = +2 LA (normally a +1 but becasue of the large increase in strength it should be bumped to at least +2, you get 4 ability score increases with a +8 for strength)Natural armor bonus = +1 LA Special attacks = +1 LA (breath weapon)Natural attacks = +1 LA (claw/claw/bite)Special Qualities = +1 LA (in addition to the base race the half-dragon gets darkvision and low light vision and immunity to sleep and paralysis effects)Special = +1 LA (increase hit dice size)Flight = +1 LA (but only for large and that is the point here)So by the numbers the LA should be +8 (+7 for non-large) but . . .Bottum line is the &quot;eye-ball&quot; test, which is usually why races/templates with benefits that add up to +3 (or more) usually get truncated to a lower LA. Basically there is a marginal rate of return on benefits so that more benefits yield less effect than fewer ones when you stack them together.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="irdeggman, post: 3720460, member: 16285"] I believe this is a true statement. An "unbalanced ability score adjustment" = +2 LA (normally a +1 but becasue of the large increase in strength it should be bumped to at least +2, you get 4 ability score increases with a +8 for strength) Natural armor bonus = +1 LA Special attacks = +1 LA (breath weapon) Natural attacks = +1 LA (claw/claw/bite) Special Qualities = +1 LA (in addition to the base race the half-dragon gets darkvision and low light vision and immunity to sleep and paralysis effects) Special = +1 LA (increase hit dice size) Flight = +1 LA (but only for large and that is the point here) So by the numbers the LA should be +8 (+7 for non-large) but . . . Bottum line is the "eye-ball" test, which is usually why races/templates with benefits that add up to +3 (or more) usually get truncated to a lower LA. Basically there is a marginal rate of return on benefits so that more benefits yield less effect than fewer ones when you stack them together. [/QUOTE]

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