D&D 3E/3.5 3.5 half-celestial at level 1?

[Kershek]

Are there existing WotC 3.5 rules to play a half-celestial at level 1, similar to the 3.0 Savage Species method? Or any other LA creature? A new game we're starting up is 3.5 only and does not include any 3.0 books.

 

[Shin Okada]

Libris Mortis has rules for playing Ghoul/Ghast, Mohrg, Mummy, Vampire Spawn & Wight in SS style.

 

[RandomPrecision]

WotC, not really, but Sean K. Reynolds has some nice classes like that, including a half-fiend one that can easily be adapted to half-celestial, as well as half-fiend and half-celestial templates available to aasimar and tieflings, respectively.

Savage Progressions Archive

 

[glass]

There is also the alternate rule for playing high LA characters at low levels. It allows first level characters to keep there abilities, but gives a penalty to just about everything equal to their LA, which reduces by one each 'level' until they get back to where they should be.

EDIT: It's from one of the FR books, but I'm afraid I can't remember which one.


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[Mark Causey]

There is also the alternate rule for playing high LA characters at low levels. It allows first level characters to keep there abilities, but gives a penalty to just about everything equal to their LA, which reduces by one each 'level' until they get back to where they should be.

EDIT: It's from one of the FR books, but I'm afraid I can't remember which one.


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Player's Guide to Faerun pp. 190-191.

 

[glass]

Player's Guide to Faerun pp. 190-191.

Thanks. I knew I had id, and had used it, but all I could remember about where it was was that I could never find it then either! :\


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[Viktyr Gehrig]

Are there existing WotC 3.5 rules to play a half-celestial at level 1, similar to the 3.0 Savage Species method? Or any other LA creature? A new game we're starting up is 3.5 only and does not include any 3.0 books.

Check the Wizards archives for the Savage Species articles. Use the Races of Faerun LA +0 Aasimar. Become a normal Aasimar at ECL 2, then take the Aasimar-Half Celestial transformation class for ECL 3-5.

 

[Nifft]

Why settle for half?

Savage Species had a nifty 20 level progression for Astral Deva that you could probably update to 3.5e pretty easily.

-- N