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====On Racial Classes====

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As I've explained above, level adjustment is a rather poor way to balance a race because of the extraordinary amount of benefits a race must provide to even be worth LA +1. Racial classes are a better method for this type of power offset. They do still offset character power, since taking more levels in classes with progressing features (such as spellcasting and martial adept classes) is usually better than taking levels in racial classes, but they do it to a much smaller degree. I will generally try to make all races function so that

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As I've explained above, level adjustment is a rather poor way to balance a race because of the extraordinary amount of benefits a race must provide to even be worth LA +1. Racial classes are a better method for this type of power offset. They do still offset character power, since taking more levels in classes with progressing features (such as spellcasting and martial adept classes) is usually better than taking levels in racial classes, but they do it to a much smaller degree. I will generally try to make all races function so that they don't need such balancing offsets, but some features make it impossible (like Thri-Kreen's four arms). In those cases, I will use racial class in place of level adjustment as the lesser of two evils.

A racial class is like a base class that is only available to members of that particular race. If a creature of a certain race has a racial class, it can choose to take levels in that class at any time, but it does not have to; it can choose to never take any levels in its racial class, and it can choose to only take a few levels in it and stop. Every racial class level has a minimal character level requirement, so a character may only take that level of the racial class if it is advancing to that character level (for example, if a 1st level half-dragon with one level in its racial class levels up, it cannot take another level in its racial class until it levels up again due to the 3rd level requirement there).

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==Core Races==

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 ====On Racial Classes====
-As I've explained above, level adjustment is a rather poor way to balance a race because of the extraordinary amount of benefits a race must provide to even be worth LA +1. Racial classes are a better method for this type of power offset. They do still offset character power, since taking more levels in classes with progressing features (such as spellcasting and martial adept classes) is usually better than taking levels in racial classes, but they do it to a much smaller degree. I will generally try to make all races function so that
+As I've explained above, level adjustment is a rather poor way to balance a race because of the extraordinary amount of benefits a race must provide to even be worth LA +1. Racial classes are a better method for this type of power offset. They do still offset character power, since taking more levels in classes with progressing features (such as spellcasting and martial adept classes) is usually better than taking levels in racial classes, but they do it to a much smaller degree. I will generally try to make all races function so that they don't need such balancing offsets, but some features make it impossible (like Thri-Kreen's four arms). In those cases, I will use racial class in place of level adjustment as the lesser of two evils.
 A racial class is like a base class that is only available to members of that particular race. If a creature of a certain race has a racial class, it can choose to take levels in that class at any time, but it does not have to; it can choose to never take any levels in its racial class, and it can choose to only take a few levels in it and stop. Every racial class level has a minimal character level requirement, so a character may only take that level of the racial class if it is advancing to that character level (for example, if a 1st level half-dragon with one level in its racial class levels up, it cannot take another level in its racial class until it levels up again due to the 3rd level requirement there).
 ==Core Races==