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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 2338434" data-attributes="member: 5777">This guy happens to have racial hd instead of LA, shifting the paradigm <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I am glad that feats are not a bad thingI am also glad that pp are a good thing.Of course, if you 'arent' a psionic class then they dont do much of anything, and if you are a psionic class then you lost a bunch of pp by picking this race. Sounds like a wash.Two bad things. Neither of which is incredibly small. Still though, if we equate to feats then these are both better than feats that currently exist, but in the wrong direction.Dodge is only vs 1 opponent after being designated, counters the -1 ac some of the time.Weapon focus is only for a single weapon, counters the -1 to hit some of the time (likely most/all, but hey)If you wanted to list a 'small' bad thing then you should've listed the extra money it takes to wear larger sizes of armor.LA is an overused concept. They try to make it solve a number of problems when it is only suited to a small amount.Adding racial hd is effective, as the several different examples now show. maybe not as effective as some would like, but that is part of the point of asking for help, yes?Still though, if it works why would it matter if there are no others that use the same method yet? New things are not automatically bad.Plus, there 'are' races with hd and no LA, especially in Savage Species. Still though, just because other races are designed to be much less useful than the core does not make it right. We are trying to balance something here, even if there were no other examples of any other races that are not in the phb that are balanced that is no reason to not try to balance this one.If we are going to start saying that the level buyoff is balanced then we have left the realm of sanity behind long ago ;/As an example, lets say that this race had a +2 LA. This would mean it would be useless at low levels but at high levels peoples complaints of it being overpowered would still be there, because the LA would be gone. Fix the LA and no need for crazy rules that dont fix what they are trying to fix.</blockquote>

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