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Oct 14, 2012 -- 12:56AM, Krazed wrote:

[D&D 3.5]I've never made a monster PC but I have the rare opportunity to play a slaad. It's a level 6 blue slaad but I have to level it up two times in a player class. How exactly does this work? Do I take levels 7 and 8 in a player class and follow the multiclassing rules? And what's level adjustment?

EDIT: Am I to understand my ECL is 14? 8 hit dice + 6 level adjustment. The rest of my party is level 8. But my hit points are equal to them and my damage is equal to that of the ranger in our party. If I don't take levels with them until they reach level 14 I'll be totally outmatched by them. Why is the ECL so inaccurate? How do I get around this? 

Oct 15, 2012 -- 6:48PM, Krazed wrote:

1) Who's talking about a 14th-level wizard?
2) The DM was the one who made it possible for me to play slaad through a plot twist, and we've already discussed this rule, so yeah, he's comfortable with it.
3) Don't assume me to have the same lack of self-control as those who frequent the optimization board. Just because I have the ability to build an over-powered character doesn't mean I'll do it. 

1.  You are the one who is talkinga about a "14th-level" character equivalent and I just changed it from Blue Slaad to Wizard 14.

2.  DMs can make mistakes yet not realize it until much further down the road.  Letting someone play something they really shouldn't or have something they shouldn't are some common examples.  Letting you play a Blue Slaad through a "plot twist" can maybe be compared to letting someone play a Vampire through a plot twist; they can be good for a short time but long term requires a LOT more work.

3.  I haven't said you have the lack of control of some of those who post here but I am trying to point out some of the problems that will just come from playing a character well above the rest of the group's power level.

I've quoted your first post and have been answering those questions.  Ultimately, it doesn't look like you've liked the answers you've been given and instead have latched on to the one possible houserule (one that can break things without much trouble) as justification for playing a Blue Slaad with a level 8 group.  I think we've explained "how your character should work" along with showing some of what LA means.  To answer the "Edit" portion of the top post you should understand that PC Blue Slaad IS a ECL 14 character.  Your hitpoints and damage may be equal to other 8th-level characters but that is because you didn't follow the rules for using monsters as PCs and it seems you copied down the wrong hitpoints.  I believe I showed you why the Blue Slaad's LA +6 is NOT so inaccurate.  As for getting around the Slaad's ECL I'd allow you to know one point off the LA if you use normal stats instead of hero stats but beyond that I'd just figure out some savage species style progression.

Asteron, I believe the "regulars" will assume that when questions are asked the game will be following something that is very close to the Rules As Written and answer accordingly.  As such the further you try pushing away from the RAW the more resistance you will meet but that is because we are trying to teach/present the game as it is written instead answering questions for a game that barely resembles DnD.  If houserules are presented they are usually honored although we may question why they are being used.