3.5 battle sloth returns?

[Falcii]

I used to play a character named mono who was a 7 foot tall battle sloth. He was awesome and I desperately want to play him again with a different group of people. Unfortunately he was a fair bit homebrew-y and he had a racial level adjust, which because of the DM is unacceptable in this campaign.

Is there a way you can get an awakened sloth (or I guess maybe a reflavored monkey) to be at least ALMOST raw legit with no level adj?

[Divide by Zero]

Anthropomorphic Ape from Savage Species is +0 LA with 2 RHD. That's the closest I can think of. Or just ask the DM if you can make a homebrew race, it's not like there's anything inherently broken about it.

[Troacctid]

Well, I don't know about race, but I highly recommend the Sloth domain. It seems appropriate.

[Thurbane]

Feral Bugbear? :smalltongue:

There's a Forest Sloth (MM2 p.106), but with 14HD, not going to be very player friendly. Unless you conveniently get 13HD permanently level drained, then get awakened.

http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm2_gallery/88268_620_149.jpg

There's also the Megatherium (FF p.124) again, 13 RHD.

http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50113.jpg

....you could re-fluff the Urskin from Frostburn as sloth-like rather than polar bear-like.

[ShurikVch]

There's a Forest Sloth (MM2 p.106), but with 14HD, not going to be very player friendly.Anthropomorphic Animal Forest Sloth is only 2 HD (LA, unfortunately, unclear)

[Falcii]

Anthropomorphic Animal Forest Sloth is only 2 HD (LA, unfortunately, unclear)
Well the natural armor adds 1 and the unbalanced stats add 1-2 and I believe the bonus feats add one as well.

[Urpriest]

In general, a good tactic here might be to get a sloth (or sloth-like creature) as an Animal Companion. You can then make it Celestial with the Exalted Companion feat, making it intelligent. Then just roleplay the sloth.

[Gildedragon]

Take a lycanthrope class, 2 levels, and go about in hybrid form all the time (without any of the animal abilities)

[Novawurmson]

7ft. tall is still a medium creature. Refluff any standard melee race, and you're good to go.

[Inevitability]

Well the natural armor adds 1 and the unbalanced stats add 1-2 and I believe the bonus feats add one as well.

This is the system that got us ECL 16 Hill Giants. I really recommend just evaluating the monster yourself.