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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quidam" data-source="post: 162923" data-attributes="member: 3391">ECL & HPI play a nioman character who's yet to buy off his negative levels and I do have this to add re: ECL- facing CR3 monsters with lvl 1 hit points means you spend a lot of time unconscious on the floor.  So, while the ECL char's have an advantage to begin with, they are (and always will be) that many HD behind.  Better have a decent Con- hope you don't play a spellcaster!In my campaigns, I'm going to make a single house rule re: ECL.  You get hit dice for the levels- this way a second level drow whatever's got four hit dice- not two.  If you're starting a level 1 campaign and there's an ECL PC in it, they get 1HD until they start 'buying off' their ECL.  By the time they're even, they've got HP appropriate to their ECL.</blockquote>