For example, a character will get a ton of opportunities to breathe fire, but an enemy NPc will usually only get one. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Dexterity. Fire Breath (Recharge 56): The Veteran exhales fire in a 15-foot cone. Heavy Crossbow: Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. CR is usually lower, because the creature doesn't have the screen time to truly abuse a power. Shortsword: Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. LA affects the characters CR, and will be higher when the race has abilities which are useful over a long period of time. If they didn't, then there should definitely be different ECLs for different parent types.Īnd to the original poster: the LA of +3 doesn't contradict the CR of +2, as the two items are related but not matching.

I hope you're remembering correctly and they did level out the breath weapon damages. They'll get fewer attacks, but at a higher to hit and damage.

What's truly scary is a half-dragon fighter-type, because what they lose in BAB they (mostly) make up for in strength. Instead of hitting you with a fireball at 6th level, they're hitting you with a Ray of Flame (or whatever the new 2nd level fire spell is in 3.5).

Why would you fear half-dragon sorcerers more than Human ones? Sure they get +2 Cha and some more hit points, but they also gave up 3 levels of spellcasting.

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