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<blockquote data-quote="sword3274" data-source="post: 4962119" data-attributes="member: 71683">I enjoy this conversation! This is one topic that has always intrigued me.&nbsp;During one character creation session, I had a player considering a drow caster of some sort (I cannot remember which class) that was eventually dissuaded because of the &quot;gimping&quot; it would bring to be so far behind the rest of the party, level-wise. I thought about a fix at that point, but it flitted away from my mind, until reading this thread.&nbsp;I don't know if this would be giving a hand to the already overpowered <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; (:"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" />p) casters, but I'm considering giving one of the following to casters with a LA: caster level bonus of 1/2 LA, rounded down (doesn't help LA +1 races, but do they need much help only being one level behind?) or just a flat +1 to caster level (maybe with the condition that they must have a caster as a favored class and have levels in that class). I know I'm thinking about this with the drow in mind, so I'm not sure how this would affect other races, either being too power, or not powerful enough. I like either one of the above fixes, but I don't know how it would effect balance. I just know that playing a LA + race wizard in a 5th level group would be pretty damn frustrating at times, it would seem.&nbsp;Thoughts?&nbsp;EDIT: I do understand that it will give an advantage when all characters are 1st level, but I'm not sure how I would handle that aspect (maybe wait and stretch out the additional casting levels?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sword3274, post: 4962119, member: 71683"] I enjoy this conversation! This is one topic that has always intrigued me. During one character creation session, I had a player considering a drow caster of some sort (I cannot remember which class) that was eventually dissuaded because of the "gimping" it would bring to be so far behind the rest of the party, level-wise. I thought about a fix at that point, but it flitted away from my mind, until reading this thread. I don't know if this would be giving a hand to the already overpowered (:p) casters, but I'm considering giving one of the following to casters with a LA: caster level bonus of 1/2 LA, rounded down (doesn't help LA +1 races, but do they need much help only being one level behind?) or just a flat +1 to caster level (maybe with the condition that they must have a caster as a favored class and have levels in that class). I know I'm thinking about this with the drow in mind, so I'm not sure how this would affect other races, either being too power, or not powerful enough. I like either one of the above fixes, but I don't know how it would effect balance. I just know that playing a LA + race wizard in a 5th level group would be pretty damn frustrating at times, it would seem. Thoughts? EDIT: I do understand that it will give an advantage when all characters are 1st level, but I'm not sure how I would handle that aspect (maybe wait and stretch out the additional casting levels?) [/QUOTE]

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