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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 if the rules for corporeal creatures and incorporeal were symmetrical?
I previously asked this question in regards to the asymmetry between corporeals attacking incorporeals (having a miss chance of 50%) and incorporeals attacking corporeals (no miss chance) as per the ...
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Is this change to how XP works in D&D 3.5 unbalanced?
I have been concerned for a while about how to treat experience totals in D&D 3.5 when a character gains or loses Level Adjustments (LA). Gaining/losing LA in play is too punitive and is ...
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Would giving dwarves specific racial proficiencies instead of Weapon Familiarity be unbalanced?
I have a player that wants to play a dwarven druid. He’s flavoring the class as a loner that wander the tunnels protecting his settlement from the monsters that lurk in caves. However he is slightly ...
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Would crafting magical items from a single scroll be balanced?
Disclaimer: prompted by Sorcerer with item crafting of a warlock?.
In D&D, crafting a magical item generally requires a specific spell (or several), which must be cast every day the crafting ...
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At which level adjustment would becoming a Lich be a good option for a Wizard? [closed]
I think the general consensus around here is that giving up four levels of Spellcasting (plus the XP an gold cost) to become a Lich wouldn't be a good choice for a Wizard (or Cleric for that matter).
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Balance issues for gestalt melee (or other lower Tier) characters
An idea I had for balancing higher level play is to allow characters who are not tier 1 spellcasters to gestalt. The worries I have are
What is the cutoff where a character becomes tier 1? generally ...
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Recommendations for Party Balancing? [closed]
We're running a low-powered campaign. We currently have five characters, with the indicated tiers (as outlined by the Tier System for Classes):
Bard - Tier 3
Warblade - Tier 3
Rogue - Tier 4
Warlock -...
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Will adding spells to the Duskblade Spell list unbalance play?
I'm wanting to build a GMPC Duskblade character for a gestalt game.
I've read different sources with spells and thought of a number to add. Here's the complete spell list (regular Duskblade spells ...
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Playing (some) monster races without racial HD
I'm interested in whether it is possible to play certain (monstruous) humanoids from MM without adding their racial HD, whist at the same time preserving balance. What exactly would I need to do to ...
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Balancing Spellcasters; Spontaneous Casters versus Prepared Casters
So ask any optimizer and they'll almost always tell you the same thing: in 3.5 classes that prepare spells are better than spontaneous spellcasters. It's generally not thought of as even a contest. ...
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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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