(3.5) Your favorite/best LA

[Snowbluff]

LA gets a lot of crap in 3.5. I love it, though. There are quite a few gems in the material for interesting options.

For example, Phrenic is crazy powerful template. I have a Swordsage who supplements his Maneuvers with the ability to engage enemies at a range with MIND POWERS!

So, what is your favorite creature or template you'd play with LA?

[XenoGeno]

The Shadow template from Lords of Madness, no doubt. It scales very well with level giving all sorts of goodies that are extremely useful, especially on more defensively-minded characters.

[Silva Stormrage]

I think I use draconic the most simply because its pretty good, especially for gishes. I think my favorite would be the dark template or mineral warrior though.

Or maybe Dry Lich but I only get that one through walker in the waste so it really doesn't count.

[Biffoniacus_Furiou]

There's a Tier System for Templates (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=7044) that pretty accurately lists which ones are worth the level adjustment and which ones aren't.

[Lucid]

I like the Marrulurk, especially for Rogues and other sneaky characters.
3 RHD and LA+1 could be considered pretty bad, were it not for the great stats, sneak & death attack and other goodies.

[herrhauptmann]

Personal favorites: Dark, Mineral, and Halfminotaur (on a medium creature).

I found the Blooded template in Unapproachable East that I really want to use. But the skin color changes make that impossible in the game I'm currently in.

Sometimes I wish that the genasi were just templates to put onto a base creature, rather than creatures born of human and elemental ancestry.

[Kuulvheysoon]

Sometimes I wish that the genasi were just templates to put onto a base creature, rather than creatures born of human and elemental ancestry.

Funny enough, that's exactly how I treat them in my games.

[NeoPhoenix0]

For LA +1, I like aasimars (despite being very underwhelming) and the dark creature template.

For LA +2, I like the Fey'ri and the shadow creature template.

Going of the deep end, I've always wanted to play a Lillend.

[TheGeckoKing]

I'd be mad myself to ask any sane DM, but I'd like to play a Sarrukh that focused on being a crazy fleshwarping scientist that rode a fire-breathing symbiot-mecha T-Rex or something just as silly. At ECL 22, it couldn't be any worse than Epic Spellcasting, could it?

[Fax Celestis]

Half-fey (flight, enchantment immunity, SLAs, huge +CHA, other stuff), LA +2. Poisondusk lizardfolk (poison use, being a goddamn lizard, small with no speed penalty, +Dex, +Con, -Cha, claw/claw/bite, natural armor) and whisper gnomes (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20040807a&page=3), Dark (increased speed, HIPS, skill boosts, some resists) LA +1.

[Snowbluff]

Half Fey is slightly below Phrenic in my eyes. More mind-affecting and no SR. Still really good. :smalltongue:


I like the Marrulurk, especially for Rogues and other sneaky characters.
3 RHD and LA+1 could be considered pretty bad, were it not for the great stats, sneak & death attack and other goodies.
I love the Marrulurk. It's pretty awesome.

I'd be mad myself to ask any sane DM, but I'd like to play a Sarrukh that focused on being a crazy fleshwarping scientist that rode a fire-breathing symbiot-mecha T-Rex or something just as silly. At ECL 22, it couldn't be any worse than Epic Spellcasting, could it?
XD

If your avvie a Sarrukh?

[TheGeckoKing]

If your avvie a Sarrukh?

It wasn't intentionally chosen for that, but now you mention it to me it does bear a certain resemblance.

To stay on topic, another race from Faerun that's fun looking but obnoxiously broken is the Malaugrym - CL 20 Shapechange at ECL 11, anyone?

[QuickLyRaiNbow]

I use Feral, Half-Minotaur and White Dragonspawn a lot. I am aware that this makes me a bad person.

[Snowbluff]

It wasn't intentionally chosen for that, but now you mention it to me it does bear a certain resemblance.

To stay on topic, another race from Faerun that's fun looking but obnoxiously broken is the Malaugrym - CL 20 Shapechange at ECL 11, anyone?:smallsmile:

Source? Another similiar is the Yuan Ti Tainted One. They can polymorph into snakes.

[TheGeckoKing]

The source is Monsters of Faerun, and the LA is in the errata.

[Yogibear41]

Were-Bear of course sure it might not be the greatest but something about being a large half-bear half man hybrid beast ripping bad guys apart with claws and bites just makes me a happy camper :smallsmile:

[Jeff the Green]

It includes 7 HD, but Gloura (LA +2) is pretty good. +10 Dex, +4 Con, +2 Wis, +6 Cha, DR 10/Cold Iron, cast as a level 7 bard, and Charisma to saves and AC. I rather like it with unarmed Swordsage with Ascetic Mage and shadow blade.

[PurpleSocks]

I personally love Curst, they're considered a +3 LA adjustment, and while they're not great they are effectively unkillable. Immune to all sorts of things, regen 1 hit point per hour, can survive being decapitated, dismembered, set on fire and comes with scaling SR.

[The Viscount]

I'm rather a fan of Karsite for +2 LA. If you roll Karsite Warlock you've got infinite self healing, and that seemed pretty neat. Also due to very specific wording Karsite Warlock and Karsite with any psionics is legal.

[Flickerdart]

Black Ethergaunt. :smallbiggrin:

[gurgleflep]

Half-illithid's and Half-fiends (using a variant for specific fiends) are my two favorite - illithids are my favorite creature, and who doesn't want to be part balor?!

[Tobimaro]

Centaur (especially following the rules in Races of the Wild). I was playing one in the old Living Greyhawk campaign, and had to endure being 6 levels of medium centaur, then I had to pay my large tax with resizing my items as I became large. Armed with a great falchion from Sandstorm, and blessed with a 24 strength (and power attack), I could do 3d6 +11 of damage before PA. The only downsides were a lower hit point total and that there were several modules where being large was a detriment.