a Will save.Д«onus feats (aside from Martial Weapon Proficiency) are probably too good for an LA +0 template.

Characters donвЂ™t get to choose when theyвЂ™re making a Fort vs. TheyвЂ™re probably safe enough to give in very small number.Д«onuses and penalties to saving throws are pretty good, if given out equally. Bonuses up to +4 are possible, but IвЂ™d be leery about them.Д«onus martial weapon proficiencies donвЂ™t usually matter too much, though itвЂ™s hard to imagine an appropriate drawback. Skill bonuses and penalties, in the в€’2 to +2 range, are very safe you can probably just hand out bonuses and penalties equally and it will be fine. Other changes should probably lean slightly towards more drawback than benefit, since you must assume that players will try to apply benefits where most useful and drawbacks where least painful. Which is verbose and annoying, but eliminates the +4 or в€’4 scenarios. If one already has a racial bonus to X, one does not receive the racial penalty to Y, and if one already has the racial penalty to Y, one does not receive the racial bonus to X. +2 racial bonus to X and в€’2 racial penalty to Y does not stack with racial bonuses or racial penalties from oneвЂ™s actual race. So IвЂ™d probably recommend avoiding ability score adjustments altogether, or doing something like The problem is that, for example, LA +0 races rarely if ever give +4 to an ability score, or apply a в€’4 penalty вЂ“ and doing so can be problematic when the +4 is to something that a character relies on exclusively, or the в€’4 is to something the character doesnвЂ™t care about. This template effectively changes one LA +0 race into another LA +0 race. Actually, I would consider LA +0 (giving drawbacks and benefits in roughly equal measure) before LA +2. So I would aim for LA +1 templates, most likely. That makes it pretty difficult to design challenges.

LA leads to skewed characters, where some of their stats and abilities are too good for their level, but other stats and abilities are too weak for their level, leading to weird situations where one kind of challenge, normally something of a challenge, can be solved automatically, but another, also usually only a moderate challenge, is suicidal. ItвЂ™s very difficult to play with more than LA +1 or LA +2, and furthermore even if someone wants to do it, it can make life very difficult for the DM. In my opinion, the first thing to do is to be careful about precedent: templates are balanced by their Level Adjustment (LA), but most templates and creatures have much more LA than they should. It would depend a lot on what you are trying to do. What steps would I use to make a balanced template? Pretty much exactly this sort of situation: changes that can be made to a variety of creatures, rather than specifically writing up a new creature/race for each combination. Right now they're based on Men, which is where I want the template to come from, but I also want to make Elves based on the other races without resorting to half-breeds (which doesn't work for Elves in this world). In the Races document, I'm looking to convert the Elves into a template.

Where can I find more information on these topics?Д¬urrent Flavor/Background (specifically, the Races page and sub-pages):.

What's the real difference between a race and a template as it relates to what I'm trying to create?.

What steps would I use to make a balanced template?.

I need to turn my Elf race (actually, each of the four variants) into a template which can be applied to any race (Man, Dwarf, Gnome so far). But the enhancements are not exclusive to Man. There's no such thing as a half-Elf - either the child has the Elvish enhancements or she does not. After the disaster which ultimately caused the creation of all non-human races, every race has its own Elves. I'm trying to create a version of Elves, but the origin of them is as specially enchanted military units (mostly stealth and espionage both physical and informational/digital). But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I needed it to be a template, not a race. So I had an idea for a race for my world.

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