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Ghenesh 08-17-07, 09:36 PM

This is an idea i had a while ago about balancing races withouth Level Adjustment. Every race has Creature Features, wich are characteristics that every creature must have, such as size, basic ability modifiers, speed movements, etc, besides a Race has a list of Racial Features wich are specific for every race, so when you pick a race you can choose some Racial Features, most powerful races choose a few of their Racial Features, weaker races choose more of their Racial Features. What are Racial Features? This are examples of Racial Features: Ability Modifiers: An extra +4 to Strength or +2 to Int might be a good racial feature. Resistances: 5 + level Spell Resistance, Fire Resistance 10, Natural Armor +2. Racial Knowledges: Equipment Proficiencies and bonuses against racial enemies, languages, bonus to Int based skills, etc. Racial Traits: Bonuses to Str, Dex, Con, Wis or Cha based skills, Special Attacks, etc. Spell-like Abilities: spell-like or psionic abilities. etc, etc, etc... What's the idea? You can customize your character from level 1, you can be a Dwarf who didn't train on the army so you don't know how to use the Dwarven Axes, you can be a Gnome who never developed spell-like features, you can be an Elf who don't know how to use a Bow... instead you took other things, things related with your character, more customization. On the other hand this give us a way to balance races without using LA, weakly Kobolds might take 6 Racial Features, but mighty Goliaths only take 3. In the advent of 4E this might sound like an idea to work with. What do you think?