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<blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 5022659" data-attributes="member: 72317">HD+LA would work, if wotc didn't artificially inflate LA just to discourage players from playing weird races. As it stands, many monsters have ECLs much higher than what their power level suggests (either that, or wotc was comparing them with really subpar PCs, or they really overestimated the worth of their special abilities). So I think that the 1st step would be to revalue the individual LAs. For instance, I think that for all the giants, their LA can be effectively zero (ie: ECL = racial HD). Or does that still make them too weak?In this case, the exception would be fairly weak monsters with so much racial HD that their ECL would actually be lower than their amount of HD.As for templates, I also support a savage progression so players can slowly take them over several lvs and stagger them with class lvs, rather than sucking the entire chunk of LA at one go.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Runestar, post: 5022659, member: 72317"] HD+LA would work, if wotc didn't artificially inflate LA just to discourage players from playing weird races. As it stands, many monsters have ECLs much higher than what their power level suggests (either that, or wotc was comparing them with really subpar PCs, or they really overestimated the worth of their special abilities). So I think that the 1st step would be to revalue the individual LAs. For instance, I think that for all the giants, their LA can be effectively zero (ie: ECL = racial HD). Or does that still make them too weak? In this case, the exception would be fairly weak monsters with so much racial HD that their ECL would actually be lower than their amount of HD. As for templates, I also support a savage progression so players can slowly take them over several lvs and stagger them with class lvs, rather than sucking the entire chunk of LA at one go. [/QUOTE]

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