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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seeten" data-source="post: 2842775" data-attributes="member: 27186">Just to be clear, the paragraph was in response to Der_Kluge's assertion that you had better RP your half-dragons, not in any way related to your abilities or inclinations in that regard.Yeah, lets look at a sorceror half-dragon who is with a level 4 party: HP: 4+ con. Good luck against CR: 4 opponents. Good luck with the magic missile. Also, don't forget to tear em up with your 1/day breath weapon.Lets look at the level 10 Half-Dragon Sorceror. He is casting level 5 spells, while his friends cast level 7 spells. He has 3 feats while his human wizard friends have 7. But once per day he has a breath weapon, and he's quite strong. But wait, he has 33 hp and the human wizard has 42.Level adjustments are BAD. They make your character bad. Its why they exist. And, they are almost always over-estimated, to make the character far worse than a human of the same level. Not just worse, far worse.People get all caught up in "Oh, but you have a cool breath weapon!" that level 5 wizard has 2 or 3 fireballs a day equal to that 1/day breath weapon and a pile of other spells also. The level 13 wizard laughs at you and your breath weapon. This is my whole point. The breath weapon is the "Kewl Powerz" but it is not a GOOD power. Its flashy, but it has no substance. Substance. True power. Natural Spell Druids. Divine Metamagic Clerics. These are the tools of the true powergamer. The guy who KNOWS what he is doing. The guy who doesnt want flashy(although the druids wildshape CAN get flashy) he wants to massacre a room full of BBEG's all by himself. The cleric who chucks a level 42 holy word at level 20. None of these guys have an LA, because LA kills your munchkinny effectiveness.I started off by admitting I am a powergamer. I love to rp, also, and I love my concepts, and sometimes, I can be talked into playing something weak as an offspeed pitch, but frankly, I'm a munchkin, and my humans will stomp a mudhole in your half-dragon succubus lich every single time.</blockquote>

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