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Is is balanced to swap "Built for Success" for "Fey Ancestry"?
I am looking to create a homebrew race for a Quadrone, and the best place to start is with an existing race. With that in mind I have found the Autognome (Astral Adventurer's Guide) and it has several ...
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How can I allow my player to be a Doppelganger without excessive HD/LA?
A player character who is a Doppelganger has four levels of Monstrous Humanoid and LA +4:
Racial Hit Dice: A doppelganger begins with four levels of monstrous humanoid, which provide 4d8 Hit Dice, a ...
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Can a Doppelganger buy Changeling racial feats?
The Changeling race in D&D 3.5 has a history defined as
They evolved through the union of doppelgangers and humans, eventually becoming a separate race distinct from either ancestral tree.
In D&...
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What implications would a monstrosity as a player character entail?
Travelers of the Multiverse Unearthed Arcana lists the Thri-kreen race, and its type is monstrosity. I am wondering what playing as a monstrosity would entail.
All things that come to my mind are ...
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Would it be balanced to use the Starfinder system for races with more than 2 arms in Pathfinder 1e?
In Starfinder creatures with more than 2 arms have a feature where they can hold more items but not take extra actions with those arms. Would it be balanced if a race in Pathfinder 1e had this feature?...
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Is Custom Lineage Unbalanced at low levels?
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Our group prefers to adopt AL rules for our home games because we feel it starts us off with the right mix of fun and balance (multiclass allowed, feats allowed, rolling for stats ...
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Do any serious balance issues result from this houserule: Floating Ability Score at Character Creation?
I've recently been considering the phenomenon that "unusual" race-class combinations are often 1 modifier behind on their primary ability score - i.e. that they would start, using point buy ...
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A dwarven Path of the Ancestral Guardian, good builds/tips? [closed]
Recently I finished playing a character of mine in a long-running D&D campaign. My DM and I both decided it'd be best to leave my character behind because his story was finished and there was no ...
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What should I do when every PC has really low charisma (and it bothers me)?
I am currently working on a PnP which is a mixture of Traveller, DnD and some of my own game mechanics.
The attributes of PCs are pretty much the same as in DnD, and I also decided to have players ...
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Can an alternate Effect have the Reaction extra?
I've been playing around with making a Kung-Fu master for some time in Mutants and Masterminds, and I'm nearly done. However, I'm not sure if I constructed their attacks correctly. The image that I ...
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Is it balanced to replace a musical instrument proficiency from my character's background with an artisan's tool proficiency instead?
I'm designing a Wood Elf Outlander Warlock (in D&D 5E) who only has one hand. This makes my arm near to useless. As an Outlander, I am proficient with a musical instrument, and have skill ...
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How, as a Pathfinder DM, can I help my players create characters at the correct optimization level for a given adventure?
My D&D 4e party is a few levels away from the end of their epic campaign, and they want to keep playing D&D with me.
I have recently discovered that I really like some of the Adventure Paths ...
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Do I have to worry about players making “bad” choices on level up?
When I came back to RPGs (after 20 years) I discarded pathfinder after reading about the complexities of the systems and the fact that there was a real chance of getting “bad characters” if you made ...
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Will a level 10 pixie druid be unbalanced—either overpowered or underpowered—in a group of otherwise typical level 14 PCs?
A friend of mine wants to reenter the level 14 group in my campaign. She describes her ideal character thus:
nature-loving, woodland home, spiritual, rather eccentric, small and nimble
The other ...
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Would granting every PC the choice of a free cantrip at level 1 be unbalancing?
Inspired by this question: Would granting every PC the choice of a feat or a cantrip be unbalancing?
Some classes get cantrips, some don't. Some races get a free cantrip (such as via the high elf's "...
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Will it cause any balance issues if I grant a character a free feat to balance out their low ability scores?
One of my players rolled up a character with extremely low stats even after applying all his class and race bonuses: +3, 0, 0, -1, -2 and -3. The player chose Bard as their class.
Considering that ...
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Are there any overpowered race/class combinations for Curse of Strahd?
Curse of Strahd was released in 2016; since then, there have been many supplement books with extra races and subclasses.
Are there any combinations of races/classes I should advise players to take in ...
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DM changing homebrew race; does this retroactively change how you play the character and buy gear? [closed]
This is just a question I have been wondering about. Having strong debates with my group's DM over this ruling.
CONTEXT:
DM created a couatl race to play for his first campaign ever.
the abilities ...
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How to extend Pathfinder point buy to scores below 7?
In Pathfinder point buy, ability scores of lower than 7 (before adjustments from race) may not be bought with point buy.
What would be a balanced price for such low ability scores?
I am looking for ...
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Does an Outsider (Native) player character also get all the Bestiary Outsider features?
This might be a dumb question, but I can't seem to find a solid answer for it anywhere on Google, and I can't help but feel like it makes the Aasimar I'm making stronger than I thought... When a PC is ...
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How would a 15-point point buy for ability scores affect my game?
In my campaign I have 8 players. I'm thinking of lowering the point buy from 27 to 15 points (I assume it is the equal of rolling 3d6 like in older editions) to both have a session about an average ...
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How do I balance a party's ability scores?
I'm playing Dungeons & Dragons 5e and while we in the party were rolling dice to determine the ability scores, one of my friends (fighter) rolled really good numbers (like 15, 16, 18, and 13) and ...
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Dragon character with non dragon group?
I'm looking for dragon as a player character that doesn't destroy the game -- if it is too powerful for the players who don't play dragons it is not a desirable choice.
I would like to play a ...
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How would elves’ advanced starting age affect my new character?
After a long break of play DnD my group wanted to start up a campaign again. We start making characters. My character is going to be an Elf that grew up as an orphan in this the large capital city ...
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How can I mechanically balance a PC being permanently blind?
One of my players, playing a Dex/Cha-based bard, wants his character to be completely blind.
I like to let them play whatever they feel enjoyable, even though I'd like to find out how to make it not ...
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Would this Point Buy house rule for Maid character creation work at all?
Recently we've started a maid game here on the stack and we have a huge disparity of stats between the players, one of them has barely average stats, while some of the other players are pushing fours ...
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Balancing starting dots and XP at character creation
In Vampire: The Requiem, the character has points to spend between attributes, skills, disciplines, etc. Purchasing a new level in a skill, attribute or other merit has a linear cost.
During game ...
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Playing two characters in unison in D&D 5e
I am looking for some input: how fair is it to play a pair of characters in a single unit, and what effect does it have on the gameplay?
Essentially my idea is a druid who is inept at using his own ...
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Should I allow a Wondrous Item on level 1 character creation?
I'm starting a new 3.5 campaign, using only the 3 core books for character creation, and starting all my players off at level 1. One of my players has written a (rather good) backstory for his ...
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How can I offer players a balanced opportunity to take powerful races, without adjusting their level?
I'm planning to run a Planescape game in 3.5 and want to offer players the opportunity to play unusual characters within the system. Ideally power level wouldn't be a concern, but some players might ...
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