Behold_the_Void
2007-11-04, 07:13 PM
So, I have a player interested in the Hengeyokai race from Oriental Adventures. I'm generally accommodating to race choices, but the problem is that it's a level 1 campaign and Hengeyokai don't look all THAT powerful, certainly not something that really calls for a +1 LA. The only troublesome thing I see is that they are immune to spells that specifically target humanoids, which I am going to remove seeing as there is no "Shapeshifter" type in 3.5 and I'm not using the OA types since there's no real need to in the game.
Would a Hengeyokai be terribly unbalanced as they are?
For those unaware, the racial traits with the change in place are as follows:
-2 Wisdom
Base speed 30 (in human form)
The ability to change shape into one of three forms a number of times per day equal to character level. The forms they can take are human form, hybrid form, and animal form.
While in Hybrid form, they gain a few benefits. In this case the player wishes to play a Weasel Hengeyokai, which means she would get +2 constitution and +4 to move silently (but only in Weasel-hybrid form) as well as the ability to shift into a normal weasel.
Too overpowered for LA +0 or not? I don't bill the shapeshifting as all THAT overpowering, and when in human form (which is the easiest to move around in, especially since a lot people outside of the Asian country aren't familiar with Hengeyokai but ARE familiar with lycanthropes) they have a net penalty and few real benefits.
Would a Hengeyokai be terribly unbalanced as they are?
For those unaware, the racial traits with the change in place are as follows:
-2 Wisdom
Base speed 30 (in human form)
The ability to change shape into one of three forms a number of times per day equal to character level. The forms they can take are human form, hybrid form, and animal form.
While in Hybrid form, they gain a few benefits. In this case the player wishes to play a Weasel Hengeyokai, which means she would get +2 constitution and +4 to move silently (but only in Weasel-hybrid form) as well as the ability to shift into a normal weasel.
Too overpowered for LA +0 or not? I don't bill the shapeshifting as all THAT overpowering, and when in human form (which is the easiest to move around in, especially since a lot people outside of the Asian country aren't familiar with Hengeyokai but ARE familiar with lycanthropes) they have a net penalty and few real benefits.