Talk:Racial Templates For Player Characters (5e Variant Rule)

I'm not sure that the Level Adjustment works in practice. Imagine you are a DM designing encounters for a party with level adjustments. You would still use CRs suitable for 1st level characters, all that is happening then is you are prolonging the 1st level experience, this doesn't sound fun, and it is not a "balancing effect".

I understand that it is similar to 3rd edition LA, but I believe that the flaw in this was recognized and corrected in Savage Species (and some Dragon magazine articles, e.g. Half Elementals) by having class level substitutions instead. Marasmusine (talk) 02:13, 1 May 2024 (MDT)