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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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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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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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How can you find a balance between effective/optimised characters and creative characters?
When creating characters, I often face a dilemma between making a character. It feels like they can either be optimized so they can "pull their own weight" or having a character I think is ...
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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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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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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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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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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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