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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eldritch_Lord" data-source="post: 4747046" data-attributes="member: 52073">Regarding LA, RHD, racial progressions...the reason they're so harsh is, in addition to what Jeff Wilder mentioned, that the devs want to make playing nonstandard races less appealing, as they're not Tolkienesque enough and/or make playing with standard races more difficult.  I've done a mathematical breakdown of a bunch of LA races which shows that equivalent benefits are assigned worse LA and RHD the weirder the base race is (like ogres and gnolls being almost exactly equivalent but the Large, ugly ogre being penalized more than the slightly furry gnoll), but unfortunately I can't find it at the moment to link to it.Suffice to say that if you can't get your hands on the changeling material, you should ask your DM to waive the "must take all levels in a racial progression first" rule--it's unnecessarily crippling your character, since class benefits >> racial benefits in the vast majority of cases.The WotC boards aren't all that bad in terms of general discussion.  All the Terms of Use really apply to is homebrewed material (and that they can take any of it, at any time, for any reason).  If you're not a homebrewer and/or DM, you should be just fine there, though the atmosphere leaves something to be desired now that 4e is out.  For a compulsive homebrewer like myself, it's okay, as long as I never post anything I actually care about (i.e., cool stuff that I couldn't care less about being credited for).</blockquote>

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