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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 1679829" data-attributes="member: 20740">Oh, I know that the thing could easily be killed by the right type of foes (namely spellcasters).  I was just comparing its effectiveness as an archer which is what the race seems absolutely made for.  I really think the thing should be given 2 racial hit dice and a +2 LA.  That would lower the LA to a reasonable level while avoiding some of the problem points of such a low level character having alter self, flight and SR.  I would also make the SR 10+1/2 hit dice to keep the abilities consitent at later levels.I also wonder as to the motivation behind creating this race.  It doesn't seem at all like the fey presented in the MM.  By looking at them, you can pretty much come up with a rule that if fey have modifiers, it's negative to Str, and positive to anything else.  And they should almost always have a positive mod to Cha.  It seems like this race is being tailor made for some purpose, and that almost always leads to balance problems (both too good in some ways and too weak in others).The thing doesn't seem to have any character as far ability mods go, either.  What about this race causes those mods?  Why the negative to Con?  Int? Wis?  What kind of race is this?  It doesn't seem to fill a role, unless you need to fill the niche of low-level flying race.  But then the low ability scores are contrived to lower the LA.</blockquote>