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sorreahdarkhart 05-01-07, 09:06 PM	I'm creating a modified race for a homebrewed campaign I want to run, and I'm having a hard time determining the LA of my modded race. The yuan-ti purified are a modified version of the yuan-ti pureblood stats presented in the MM v3.5. What happened story-wise is a CG pureblood ascended to godhood and provided willing purebloods a "way out" as it were. After purification, the purified breed true, and essentially raise their children to hate evil yuan-ti. Anyways, here's how I modded them (the first set is the original stats, the second are the modified): Ability Scores: +2 Dex, +2 Int, +2 Cha---> no change Size: Medium--->no change Land speed: 30 ft.--->no change Darkvision: 60 ft.--->no change Racial Hit Dice: 4 levels of monstrous humanoid--->all levels removed Racial Skills: 7+(2+Int)--->since levels were removed, this is removed Racial Feats: two feats + bonus--->receive Alertness as bonus only Natural Armor: +1--->no change Special Attacks: spell-like abilities--->all sp. atks. removed Special Qualities: alt. form, detect psn., SR 14+class lvls--->detect psn., SR 7+class lvls Auto Languages: yuan-ti, common--->add shinjai, the purified holy langauge Bonus Languages: abyssal, draconic--->remove abyssal, add auran, aquan, terran, and ignan, as the purified commonly associate with gensai Favored Class: ranger--->fighter, as the purified are best known for their fighting talent than anything else Now what trips me up is how to assign a LA to this new race. I've got a feeling it should be +2, as it's similar in structure to the drow, but I just want to make sure before I present it to my players as a viable PC option. If you folks have any pointers, I am most certainly welcome to them.
Return of the Flumph 05-01-07, 10:52 PM	Do you have a certain ECL target? If not, why not just use good yuan-ti?
kaionon 05-02-07, 03:45 PM	Hmm, +2 seems good. In place of more spell-like abilities they gain a bonus feat. I think you might want to up the spell resist though, since 7 + levels is realy low when you consider it would only be like 5+level with the level adjustment. There is little chance it would be of any used for a equal ECL caster.
sorreahdarkhart 05-02-07, 11:27 PM	Ok, SR is noted. I'll bump it up to the drow's SR, 11+lvls. As for the ECL question, I'm only willing to run with the idea of PCs with ECLs of 3. I tried to run a good aligned yuan-ti character, only to realize that I didn't understand that racial levels factored in ECLs. Considering all my other PCs were either at level 3 (for +0s) and level 2 (+1s), I thought it was unusual for a yuan-ti sorcerer of all things to have over 50 hit points. That was when I put two and two together and asked the player nicely to scrap his ECL 7 character. I love the yuan-ti to death and wanted a fairly easier version (if you will) to offer PCs. Which of course is not to say they'll pick it, just that it's one of those things I wanted but couldn't have, so I made mods on it to have it in.