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Are fey characters balanced compared to other playable races?
This depends on your campaign/DM
To be honest, this seems like a question that can all too easily become purely opinion based, so I will try to focus only on my experience in playing a Fairy (...
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Is this homebrew Kelpie race balanced compared to official races?
It's weak, very weak
The above statement is a sum up of my looking at it, below the use case for racial traits. I rate only the mechanics, I won't look at feel, idea or feature being "cool" ...
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Is this homebrew Kelpie race balanced compared to official races?
It's on the weaker side and most of the abilities are situational
I really like the flavour of this race but I think mechanically it's somewhat lacking. How useful the abilities are is going to depend ...
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Is this homebrew Kelpie race balanced compared to official races?
I'm not very familiar with Detect Balance, but I've seen other people's attempts to score every racial ability in some way, and every time I end up disagreeing with half of their reasoning. Which is ...
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Are fey characters balanced compared to other playable races?
We can't tell you this
A question of balance is more an issue for 3rd party races and not so much officially published races. While there may be opinion about what race may be 'stronger' or 'better' ...
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What's the highest starting ECL for a Small/Medium Humanoid in 3.5?
Per this related question, belgoi from Dungeon vol. 111 have 4 RHD and LA +4, for an ECL of 8th. Unlike most options at higher ECL, these are just humanoids and not monstrous humanoids.
They’re also ...
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What's the highest starting ECL for a Small/Medium Humanoid in 3.5?
I'm guessing we're excluding templates in our answer, because they significantly increase the count with scalable templates like "lycanthrope".
Does "Humanoid" in your question ...
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What's the highest starting ECL for a Small/Medium Humanoid in 3.5?
The best I've found so far?
Dark Stalker (Fiend Folio)
With 3 RHD and a whopping +5 LA, starting ECL 8 is the score to beat.
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