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<blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 2237318" data-attributes="member: 11437"><p>I'll take a look when I get home and post what I find, in case it matters. From what I recall, it uses XP, so maybe I could use the extra xp given out for magic item creators for this purpose? If that's the case, I have some even cooler ideas in mind!</p><p></p><p>EDIT: OK, it looks like I would only be able to buy back 1 ECL worth of LA. Basically, the way it works is this:</p><p></p><p>Start with your Starting LA. This determines when you can 'buy back' a level worth of LA. You take your LA x 3 and that's the next level at which you can 'buy back' LA. So, someone with LA +1 can buy back their one level of LA at 3rd level or thereafter. Someone with LA +2 could not buy off the first level of LA until 6th level, but then could again at 9th (since their new LA is +1).</p><p></p><p>The cost to 'buy back' LA is current ECL x 1,000 xp. So, a character with LA +1 who buys back a level at 3rd (ECL 4) is 4,000 XP. You cannot 'buy back' racial Hit Dice.</p><p></p><p>So my options for this are either to do LA +1 only and buy it completely off at 3rd or later (for a cost of 4,000 xp not counting racial hit dice) or take LA of +2 or more and just eat the difference. Of course, I could buy off a level next time we got XP, but it would be (12+LA+Racial HD) x 1,000 XP, so that's a tall order. Or a third option if the GM allows it is to buy off a LA at 6th and let me be negative on XP until the next time we earn XP. I would probably end up around 64k XP at start if this was allowed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Insight, post: 2237318, member: 11437"] I'll take a look when I get home and post what I find, in case it matters. From what I recall, it uses XP, so maybe I could use the extra xp given out for magic item creators for this purpose? If that's the case, I have some even cooler ideas in mind! EDIT: OK, it looks like I would only be able to buy back 1 ECL worth of LA. Basically, the way it works is this: Start with your Starting LA. This determines when you can 'buy back' a level worth of LA. You take your LA x 3 and that's the next level at which you can 'buy back' LA. So, someone with LA +1 can buy back their one level of LA at 3rd level or thereafter. Someone with LA +2 could not buy off the first level of LA until 6th level, but then could again at 9th (since their new LA is +1). The cost to 'buy back' LA is current ECL x 1,000 xp. So, a character with LA +1 who buys back a level at 3rd (ECL 4) is 4,000 XP. You cannot 'buy back' racial Hit Dice. So my options for this are either to do LA +1 only and buy it completely off at 3rd or later (for a cost of 4,000 xp not counting racial hit dice) or take LA of +2 or more and just eat the difference. Of course, I could buy off a level next time we got XP, but it would be (12+LA+Racial HD) x 1,000 XP, so that's a tall order. Or a third option if the GM allows it is to buy off a LA at 6th and let me be negative on XP until the next time we earn XP. I would probably end up around 64k XP at start if this was allowed. [/QUOTE]
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