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EvilVegan 09-07-07, 02:39 PM

Greetings all! I'm a fan of house rules. I'm a fan of character building. I like waffles too. Let me just get into my ideas. Give me suggestions if you like/dislike. Call me a noob if you want. Point Buy and level adjustment buy off: I was considering a system where a standard character is 36 point buy, but you can play a character with a reduced point buy in order to mitigate level adjustment. A 30 point buy would reduce LA by 1 and 25 point buy would reduce LA by 2. So a character could have 25 point buy and have a free +2 LA (half-vampire perhaps). This is more to counteract the craptastic conversions to PC races that they do for most monstrous races (satyr comes to mind, CR 2, ECL 7?!). The DMG says to subtract 10 or 11 from stats to determine modifiers which is a horrible method for determining stats. If you notice the "Elf Warrior" from the MM1 has 13 str, 13 dex, 10 con, 10 int, 9 wis, 8 cha. So using their own (flawed) method you have the stats for an elf as +2 str, +2 dex, -2 cha. I know they used a different stat array for elf, but why do they assume other creatures don't as well. Satyr ability scores are a 25 point buy, but when you do the DMG ability adjustment calculations they have +2 dex, con, int, wis, cha. That's almost +2 LA by itself for a 25 point buy creature? DUMB! I would also convert Monstrous Hit dice into LA or vice versa using the ECL calculator, per request. I'd also recalculate the way certain races are statted. Lets look at an ogre! Str 21, Dex 8, Con 15, Int 6, Wis 10, Cha 7 This is only 25 point buy if you use the following modifiers: +4 str, -2 dex, -2 int, -2 cha. For a 28 point buy character, the stats are: +2str , -2 dex, +2 con, -4 int, -2 cha But with DMG conversion you get +10 str,-2 dex, +4 con, -4 int, -4 cha ?!?!?!?! 40 base speed? Why not assume that all MM1 ogres have limited barbarian training giving them +10 speed due to racial hit die. A playable ogre: +2 str,-2 dex, +2 con, -4 int, -2 cha Large size Base speed 30 feet Darkvision 60 Low-light vision Giant type +1 LA with 36 point buy. NO LA with 30 point buy! Ogre racial class (not necessary to take) Them ogres sure are tough. d8 hit die, average BAB, Good fort saves, 2 skill points (climb,listen,spot) 1 Fast movement (stacks with barbarian), +1 natural armor 2 +1 natural armor 3 +1 natural armor 4 +1 natural armor, HP threshold rage of PHB2 barbarian 5 +1 natural armor That took me like 5 minutes and it made a playable +1 LA creature (with 30 point buy you could play it for 0 la). I basically just ran the stats as close to point buy as possible and then calculated the actual point buy and what the stats would be if they were close