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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 2902342" data-attributes="member: 29746">Random factors in racial traits (I'm thinking specifically of the "1d10 for Large size" thing here) are generally a bad thing rules-wise, because they're difficult to balance. Some players can get lucky and have the good stuff, while others miss out. I'd recommend splitting the race into two races, one Medium-size and one Large (probably with slightly higher LA).That said, I strongly disagree with WotC's stance that Large size must always mean LA +1 for a race- in my own games I've used homebrew races of Large size for years, and have never found the extra abilities to be unbalancing compared with some other abilities such as, say, built-in attack powers (Maenad and Dromite from the XPH leap to mind) or Flight (which, IMO, is also wildly overestimated in WotC books if it's winged flight with low maneuverability).The only truly powerful ability that Large creatures have, compared with Medium, is their extra reach, and you can easily reduce that to 5 feet with a racial feature if you want to. Without 10 foot reach, Large size is actually more of a disadvantage than an advantage. They get penalties to AC and attack rolls, have more spaces they can be attacked from, and can't fit into spaces as small as their Medium companions can enter. While most Large-size monsters have more HD than Medium creatures, that's not part of the RAW for creature sizes- and even though the Monster Manual creature size change rules mandate increased STR, CON, and natural armor going from Medium to Large there's nothing that forces you to obey them. So the size, in isolation, is not in and of itself worth a Level Adjustment (unless you believe in negative LA I suppose <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).Keep the above in mind when making your Large-size Bull, and see what you come up with. Maybe it'll even be worth discarding the Medium version altogether- you've already decided to give them a LA of at least +1, so why not jump in with both feet?</blockquote>

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