[Race] The Maglin (A small race ready to cast any arcane spell)

[las]

Maglin
In cites, big ones at that is the paces you commonly find the maglin. Their magical talent seam to come easy for them for the males are mostly wizards and the female’s seam to be sorcerers most of the time. They seam to be a fun loving people and thus feel at home hanging in many bars and taverns. Not much is known how they came to be but many think they are magic given life or forces that give magic to the world ether way there is not much known about them.
Personality: Maglin’s are fun loveing folk and thos love to have fun even thow each has fun in his or her way. Be it helping people, or killing them. In that way the seam human but every one knows they are not.
Physical Description: There small bodys look human but there skin is black, they have gold eyes. There hands seam to be a little to big for there body in most cases. There feat seam too small in others. They use the halflings size and weight categories. Maglins also use the half elf age categories.
Relations: They have good relations with all races.
Alignment: They tend to be any alignment as they each have there own way of thinking and finding how things work (or how they can get them to work for them).
Maglin Lands: They don’t realy have any of there own but many citys are there home.
Religion: They worship any god of magic.
Language: They have picked up many of the common languages but don’t have any of there own.
Names: Maglins commonly pick names up form the places they live and don’t have any of there own.

Maglin Racial Traits
* -2 Str, -2 Con, +8 Int, +8 Cha. They are week and realy frail. Many a maglin can think of things on the fly and get people to help them when they need it.
* Small: As small creatures, maglins gain a +1 size bonus to Armor Class, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, and a +4 size bonus on hide checks, but they must use smaller weapons than humans use, and their lifting and carring limits are three-quarters of thos of Medium-size characters.
* Maglin base speed is 20 feet.
* +2 racial bonus to Spellcraft checks. They spend all there life using and learning how magic works.
* Spell resistance of 5 + character level.
* Automatic Language: Common. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic).
* Favored Class: Wizard (male) or Sorcerer (female)
* Level Adjustment +2: Maglin are slightly more powerful and gain levels more slowly than most of the common races.


What do you think.

 

[Krishnath]

Ias: The maglins LA is at least +3, let's see, a +8 bonus to both Int and Cha in it self is worth at least a +2 LA on it's own, and the SR is another +1.

But other than that, very nice.

 

[las]

ok lets see

-1 size
+1 SR
+1 odd abilitys
= +1 ECl

they are small and beging small is not good for things.

Plus right now in play testing it as well.

My char has a 8 Str, 16 Dex, 12 Con, 26 Int, 12 Wis, and 17 cha.

+ being small does not help when you have an 8 Str right and a 12 con does not help with a d4 HD. Now that 26 int might do nothing.

Now be some others people math (That I can think of)

+1 size
+1 SR
+2 Ability
= +4 ecl


I did do an acid test on these people I can see other races being a better pick then this for they are not small have a -2 Str and -2 Con (which was a -4 at one point which would also up the ECL alot to you know -4 are just as good a +2 when it comes to ECL).

 

[Krishnath]

I'm going by the formular presented in Savage Species, which by the way is the most accurate of the LA calculators, and sice does not affect the total LA. Unbalanced ability scores do, usually by +1 or +2 to the final ECL, due to the high bonuses to Int and Cha more than outweighs the penalties to str and con, I went with +2, the SR also gives an additional +1 according to the book. The rest of the stuff is so small however that it shouldn't affect the final LA, which gave my calculations a final LA of +3. They should be balanced at LA +3, but if acid tests prove that they are not, reduce the LA by one. Remember though that a +8 bonus to int increases the number of skillpoints per level by 4, and that the bonuses to int and cha give a +4 bonus to the save DC's of spells.

Later, and they are still cool.

 

[las]

The first one is the SS ne so you know it give a -1 for size.

 

[Krishnath]

Actually would you belive that I missed that entry... But the odd ability scores paired with their favored classes would still come out as a +2 to their total LA, which makes it:

Size: -1
Abilities: +2
SR: +1

For a grand total of +2

They are just not balanced as an LA +1 race.

 

[las]

After looking at the half-ogre they do seam to be on the same level.

 

[Krishnath]

Um, NO! they are not on the same level, let me explain it to you.

1. The maglin get a +8 bonus to both Int and Cha.
2. Their favored class is Wizard or Sorcerer (depending on their gender)
3. They get +4 skill points per level, with an additional +12 skillpoints at first level.
4. The DC's for their spells all improved by +4, that's a heck of a lot.
5. They can cast several extra spells per day compared to other races.
6. The maglin have spell resistance.

Do you understand now, a simple -2 penalty to str and con does not outweigh the enormous bonuses that they get.

 

[las]

well thats what play tesing is for right . Which im doing now.

 

[Krishnath]

Trust me when I am saying that they are to powerful for an LA +1 race.