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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7312414" data-attributes="member: 12731">[MENTION=12377]77IM[/MENTION]: I really wouldn't worry about off-kilter choices like a PC Pixie. It's easier to just say it doesn't fit into the "standard" scheme, so the group should basically only choose it if they like having a very special party member; such as for a one-off or convention adventure. After all, while its abilities are initially obviously overpowered, it has (as you say) no attack of its own, and it dies instantly if any attack hits it ever.Easier to just say such a small creature is best used sparingly than to try to force it into the standard adventurer mold. Even if you somehow manage to standardize its hit points and give it an attack, a clever player will still be able to abuse its Tiny size and flight ability far up into the levels. Allowing a level 10 Pixie Barbarian with one hundred hit points might not be a smart choice.Worst case, your guidelines contort so much to accommodate cases like the Pixie other more regular choices get the shaft. I'm basically convinced what you'll end up is the realization any PC Pixie (that's balanced) will have to be a completely new race built up from scratch: essentially a Tiny human that gets a few watered-down Pixie-light abilities and later on flight and more Pixie abilities. But that's not why I would want to play a Pixie! (That is, the danger is that you lose whatever it was that attracted a player to playing one in the first place...) What if I want to play a Pixie because I want to have magical dust and flight while my fellow adventurers are small-sized Commoners running around in pyjamas, and you trust my ability to not abuse my powers to steal the spotlight? <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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