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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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