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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theroc" data-source="post: 4746805" data-attributes="member: 83115">Well, I don't necessarily need a "superpowered" character, but I would like to play characters with unique qualities or less common abilties and traits without getting smashed in the face by the rules for being different.For example: For a homebrew campaign(I didn't discuss LA stuff with the DM yet because I didn't even understand LA, and am still not sure how well I'd be able to explain it to her), I had been considering playing a Doppleganger who tended to pose as an Elven Druid.  However, this character would begin as a 1st level druid with ECL 9... and I had also wanted to take the Warshaper PrC for some added flexibility.  As a note: The campaign was intended to start with level 8 characters.  So, I realized this was impossible once I learned that LA is added to RHD.My overall concern is less about being optimized as it is about making sure I'm not... suboptimized?  I want to make sure I can meaningfully contribute to a group and not end up just being there just 'cuz my suckyness amuses the party.As for what type of character I'd be going for; it'd either be the doppleganger concept(I don't have access to information on Changelings, no eberron material atm) or a Drow Assassin type character atm.  Or something draconic if I can find something that doesn't seem over the top and makes my character more dragon-like.  Or a lycanthrope (though the alignment stuff throws me off)Yeah, I'm scattered.  I've been let loose in a candy store(D&D) I've wanted to go to for about... oh... 10 years ish? and now am not sure which candies I'd like or which will make me sick.</blockquote>

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