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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 3255284" data-attributes="member: 18832">Either this, or design monsters from the ground up to be equivalent to a certain character type at a certain level, with "monster classes" which spread the creature's abilities out in a balanced fashion.Half of the difficulty of playing monstrous characters would vanish if there was no need for Level Adjustments and Effective Character Level - if monsters simply were genuinely on par with standard characters at whatever level you chose.Take the minotaur: 6 Hit Dice of monstrous humanoid, +2 Level Adjustment, for Effective Character Level 8. Ideally, a well-designed minotaur as I envision it would be presented as a single monster equivalent to an 8th-level warrior type, and as a monster class (probably in a new edition of Savage Species) with a standard-race equivalent "base minotaur" and eight monster class levels, each of which would be roughly equal to a level of a warrior class.I would back this up with a ruling that you don't have to finish your monster class, or perhaps build in "exit points" that explicitly represent different varieties of the same monster - "young minotaur", "adult minotaur", "heroic minotaur". Heck, you could even build in half-breed creatures this way: the first three levels of the minotaur monster class could be applied to a standard race (or even another creature's standard-race equivalent "base monster") to create a half-minotaur. No need for templates and their attendant (necessary) Level Adjustments.Alternatively, templates could have proper monster classes of their own.</blockquote>

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