LA Buyback in Higher Levels [Archive] - Wizards Community

LA Buyback in Higher Levels [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
VanRiper
02-15-05, 10:05 AM How do people handle LA buyback in games that start at high level? For instance, I've got a PC who wants to be a Volodni (LA+2) and buy back the +2. Beginning characters are starting at 19th level. I have unearthed arcana and didn't really see this issue addressed. How do I have this character buy back the +2?
gbnogkfs
02-15-05, 11:57 AM by that level (19), had you started at 1st level, an LA+2 character would be on par with the others, with about the same XP...
the burdens of LA are suffered at the beginning, but tend to desappear with levels; of course if you already start at high level, the problem is that no actual burden has been suffered by the character.

try with eliminating the LA and see how much the character is more powerful compared to the other, and then assign an initial XP penalty (probably not more that 1 full level) based on that.
eventually, in a couple of levels the initial penalty will be eliminated by itself because of the experience assignment rules.
cheatlord
02-15-05, 12:28 PM Basically, you remove 7000xp at CL6 and another 9000xp at CL9.
Then the LA would have been paid.

Keep in mind that a lower level character makes slightly more xp.

So a level 19 PC has 171000 xp.
If you remove 16000 xp you get 155000 xp. Of course, this is the bare minimum the player would have and no more than 171000.

So a +2 LA that did buy his levels would be at level 18, about 25% done towards level 19.
There isn't much difference at these levels.
VanRiper
02-15-05, 01:42 PM Thanks guys :) After reading your posts and discussing it with the player, we decided on the 155,000 XP.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
VanRiper 02-15-05, 10:05 AM	How do people handle LA buyback in games that start at high level? For instance, I've got a PC who wants to be a Volodni (LA+2) and buy back the +2. Beginning characters are starting at 19th level. I have unearthed arcana and didn't really see this issue addressed. How do I have this character buy back the +2?
gbnogkfs 02-15-05, 11:57 AM	by that level (19), had you started at 1st level, an LA+2 character would be on par with the others, with about the same XP... the burdens of LA are suffered at the beginning, but tend to desappear with levels; of course if you already start at high level, the problem is that no actual burden has been suffered by the character. try with eliminating the LA and see how much the character is more powerful compared to the other, and then assign an initial XP penalty (probably not more that 1 full level) based on that. eventually, in a couple of levels the initial penalty will be eliminated by itself because of the experience assignment rules.
cheatlord 02-15-05, 12:28 PM	Basically, you remove 7000xp at CL6 and another 9000xp at CL9. Then the LA would have been paid. Keep in mind that a lower level character makes slightly more xp. So a level 19 PC has 171000 xp. If you remove 16000 xp you get 155000 xp. Of course, this is the bare minimum the player would have and no more than 171000. So a +2 LA that did buy his levels would be at level 18, about 25% done towards level 19. There isn't much difference at these levels.
VanRiper 02-15-05, 01:42 PM	Thanks guys :) After reading your posts and discussing it with the player, we decided on the 155,000 XP.