Playable High LA or Racial Hit Dice Races.

[Stabbald]

I've always been a fan of playing monsters, but I can never find any that are comparable in power to a straight no adjustment or low adjustment race, such as Human or Goliath.

The only one that I'm aware of is the Pixie, which works well as a rogue.

Are there any other races with high level adjustments/racial hit dice that are worth playing?

[Campbellk8105]

In the campaign I'm in, if my character dies I'm trying to play a giant for my back up character. However my DM said no due to the type I chose and the awesomeness of it. We have a doppelganger and a half celestial in our group, both LA 4, and the doppelganger took 4 HD so bumps it to LA 8 effectively.

My idea was:
Race: Sand Giant
Class: Any full BAB/ War hulk/ Hulking Hurler

Now if you're unfamiliar with a Sand giant let me give you a few things it gets.

For starters it's large obviously, the stat bumps are amazing! +16 str +10 dex +10 con and I believe +4 wis and cha. At will as a free action it can also use blur.

That's just some stuff. In my eyes, so worth the LA +4.

[Yora]

Anything without caster level should work quite fine even with LA or RHD.

[TheGeckoKing]

Sylphs are pretty good. They have an ECL of 8, 3HD, and Sorcerer casting equal to their HD+4, so Sorcerer levels double stack.

[DoctorGlock]

Let's see, of the top of my head

Half Minotaur, +12 str among other things for +1 LA
Half Fey, +2 LA, gets loads of fun SLAs and wings, charm person at will
Fey'ri get alternate form and wings for +2 LA

Now, these are lowish LA but most of the time I find even low LA to be too high. Even though, these are some of the better LA options out there.

Also: Incarnate Construct Warforged for the lulz

[marcielle]

IIRC, being a awakened animal whose original CR was 1/3 or lower also gets you negative LA. This can be used to get monstrous templates like mineral Warior or Half Dragon cheaper.

[Runestar]

Ghaele sounds like a fun ECL20 race, assuming your DM allows the monster class from savage species. For the first 14 levels, you are actually stronger than a straight cleric! :smallbiggrin:

[Glimbur]

The Gloura (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20031003e) is a feasible alternative to a normal bard if you are starting at level 9+. Throw in a level of actual bard and, if the DM lets you play with skill points from racial hit dice, and you can slide in to Sublime Chord at level 11.

[JaronK]

Black Ethergaunt. ECL 20, but with enough casting to have 9th level spells in addition to a variety of other insanely good abilities.

And nothing quite says HULK SMASH like a Half Minotaur Lolth Touched Water Orc.

JaronK

[Essence_of_War]

There is a link in my sig to a little compilation of playable races with racial HD sorted in a few useful ways.

If you want a pixie like character, the Domovoi (a small fey, frostburn) gets a ton of mental/dex stat adjustments for a reasonable ECL.

If you want a rogue/assassin/dex-based psywar/swordsage, I highly recommend the marrulurk from sandstorm. They're pretty scary. They'd work pretty well as a dex-based Psychic Warrior also.

I've always had a soft spot for greenspawn zealots as well :smallamused: