Awakened Animal LA [Archive] - Wizards Community

Awakened Animal LA [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Kurama Youko
10-03-04, 02:15 PM I saw someone in another post say something along the lines of, "If you want to play an animal play a awakened animal not a anthropmorphic creature."

I have yet to see WotC release a LA for the Awaken Spell.
Please Someone if you know of a source that shows the LA
for this Spell please tell me it. I wouldnt mind playing a Awakened
Black Wolf casting produce flame and lobbing them with my mouth
or paws.

or a Bat that polymorphs into a Human and lobs lightning bolts. Like some kind of reverse Dracula.

I'd like nothing better than to play a raging bear.

Thank you. :D
Aethamyr
10-03-04, 03:39 PM I don't think that the awakened animal will have LA, but you will have to account for the animal's monstrous HD, and the additional ones granted by the awaken spell.
Conaill
10-05-04, 01:59 PM Assigning LA's for Awakened animals is a non-trivial task.You definitely can *not* assign a fixed LA for the spell in general, because the base animals vary so much in abilities. Also, WotC has somewhat of a point to recommend anthropomorphic creatures (from Savage Species) instead, because those have much fewer issues with lack of hands, odd sizes, etc.

That being said, Awaken *is* a core spell, and it's a crying shame that WotC has put out NO guidelines for how to run this thing. That's a huge oversight in my opinion.

Anyway... to make a long story short, have a look at the Awakened Animal Thread in my sig for more details, plus a bunch of LA calculations. LA for an Awakened Wolf for example should be about +1 (similar to a Worg).

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Kurama Youko 10-03-04, 02:15 PM	I saw someone in another post say something along the lines of, "If you want to play an animal play a awakened animal not a anthropmorphic creature." I have yet to see WotC release a LA for the Awaken Spell. Please Someone if you know of a source that shows the LA for this Spell please tell me it. I wouldnt mind playing a Awakened Black Wolf casting produce flame and lobbing them with my mouth or paws. or a Bat that polymorphs into a Human and lobs lightning bolts. Like some kind of reverse Dracula. I'd like nothing better than to play a raging bear. Thank you. :D
Aethamyr 10-03-04, 03:39 PM	I don't think that the awakened animal will have LA, but you will have to account for the animal's monstrous HD, and the additional ones granted by the awaken spell.
Conaill 10-05-04, 01:59 PM	Assigning LA's for Awakened animals is a non-trivial task.You definitely can not assign a fixed LA for the spell in general, because the base animals vary so much in abilities. Also, WotC has somewhat of a point to recommend anthropomorphic creatures (from Savage Species) instead, because those have much fewer issues with lack of hands, odd sizes, etc. That being said, Awaken is a core spell, and it's a crying shame that WotC has put out NO guidelines for how to run this thing. That's a huge oversight in my opinion. Anyway... to make a long story short, have a look at the Awakened Animal Thread in my sig for more details, plus a bunch of LA calculations. LA for an Awakened Wolf for example should be about +1 (similar to a Worg).