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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasamcarl" data-source="post: 740494" data-attributes="member: 1251">Haven't checked out the Monster Handbook, so I will not comment on that, but I would like some details on what you find unbalanced about SS, especially given the obviously aggressive application of Level Adjustments. If anything, playing a monster character will put you behind on the average party's power curve. And lets not press the Half-ogre issue.As to its use to a DM, I would point to the aforementions templates as well as the monster classes, which list CR by level. If you wanted a finer and, more importantly, downward gradient on the challenge presented by many monsters, you now have the tools.Finally, given the diversity of DMing styles as well as monsters detailed in the book, I'm dubious that all DMs would be so conservative in rejecting all attempts by players to take on these roles, especially given the hyper-literalist DND take on fantasy. Is an ogre really that much more out there than an orc? Or an Astral Deva? Especially now that they have tailored to be playable from first level?</blockquote>