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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2374084" data-attributes="member: 31734">Strength, weapon enhancement bonus, smite, weapon specialization, yes.  Flaming, sneak attack, no.  Each character has an ECL and gains experience (advances) per their ECL.  All the PH races have LA 0 and no extra HD, so their ECL amounts to total class levels.  Characters based off many MM monsters (or other sources) have a non-zero LA and/or 2+ HD.  Remember that ECL = HD + LA + class levels.  Introducing LA midstream is not easy and there are no hard-and-fast rules on it.  Some people use racial progression from Savage Species, others just force the PC to not gain any levels until their XP matches their newly acquired ECL.  Doing that usually solves the problems of players attempting to get bitten.  Turn it into the curse it's intended to be and the problem solves itself. <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=":)" />   Making the PC be an NPC is another great method, though heavy handed and will piss off a player who might actually want to remove the curse.</blockquote>