Pixie LA=4?

[Garnfellow]

Creatures with low HD but many powerful special abilities push the CR and LA systems to their limit and beyond. Such design was pretty common in older versions of the game, though, particularly for "faerie" or "girlie" monsters (my apologies that I cannot think of a better way to characterize this group).

I think most monsters that fit this profile were radically redesigned for 3.0 or 3.5 -- either given more HD or by having their powers reduced. (Hello, nymph.)

So I think that the +4 LA for a pixie is probably fair, but I also think the pixie as written is probably not a playable character race. In many situations a pixie is going to be much too weak or much too strong.

I think one could "fix" the pixie by creating a stripped down base version of the race, with say LA +0 or +1 benefits. And then create racial substitution levels (a la Races of the XXX) for the sorcerer class that would gradually backfill the missing pixie abilities. So a low-level pixie sorcerer would have only a fraction of the tradition pixie special abilities, but a high level pixie would have them all.

 

[kenobi65]

I've seen a pixie arcanist and a pixie rogue (and others, its always the same player who does it) in my games.

Is this player a graduate of Ball State University, with very thick glasses and no body hair?
http://www.kenzerco.com/periodicals/kodt/bios-bh.php

 

[moritheil]

If it is correct, just how do you kill a Pixie/Sorceror 8 (ECL 12) with 28 point buy in stats?
Pinotage

Vampire monk. Do the job right Have other vampires keep the rest of the group busy while the monk puts the hurt on the pixie. At two negative levels per round, how long will things go on before the pixie is out of hit dice? Not very long at all.

 

[Orm]

Vampire monk. Do the job right Have other vampires keep the rest of the group busy while the monk puts the hurt on the pixie. At two negative levels per round, how long will things go on before the pixie is out of hit dice? Not very long at all.

That happened to my pixie wiz2/rog1. The vampire needed only one attack (confirmed crit).

 

[Bront]

I can't locate the Pixie in the SRD (Under F or P). Is it not in the SRD? If so, which book is it in?

Just wanted to get a brief glimpse into a complete Pixie writeup.

This is personaly why I'm not a big fan of creatures with high LAs. Generaly, anything beyond +1 is too much of a tradeoff in class abilities and hit dice.

 

[Thanee]

Under S, of course.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Orm]

I can't locate the Pixie in the SRD (Under F or P). Is it not in the SRD? If so, which book is it in?

Check for Sprite (Pixie) in the SRD.

LA +4 hurts especially at low levels, but I think it´s ok. LA +6 for the occasional Pixie with Otto´s Irresistible Dance 1/day is way too much. Although it can be a killer spell.

After all, it´s a lot of fun to ply a Pixie