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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaerom Darkwind" data-source="post: 2138518" data-attributes="member: 20059">LA represents the fact that the extra racial abilities a race recieves are worth as much as a full class level (HD, BAB, saves, skills, abilities). Gestaulting grants almost double the benefits of a class level per level (almost because you don't get double the BAB, saves, or HD). A LA +1 is far weaker than a gestault level. To compensate for this, I recommend granting racial HD (or allowing a race that already has racial HD, such as a doppelganger, to gestault those HD with the LA). If you consider that each point of LA grants what is essentially a group of extremely powerful class features--enough for two classes, more or less, hence the lack of the other half of a class (HD, BAB, saves, skill points)--then adding empty HD, in the form of racial HD, completes it and makes it equal to a normal gestault level. Like them you get double the class features, and one single HD with benefits. Super features + empty HD vs. normal features & HD + normal features & HD. Odds are your racial HD won't be as good as normal gestault HD anyway. Thus, a Hobgoblin|Humanoid 1 would be about on par with a Fighter|Monk 1, or what have you. A Hobgoblin 1/Fighter|Monk1, on the other hand, is significantly weaker than a Fighter|Monk 2.</blockquote>