I had a lot of fun playing a weretiger in a campaign, it's a +3LA to be a natural werecreature, meaning full control over transformations and DR 10/silver (+2LA for afflicted, DR 5/silver and no control). Weretigers get +12 str, +4 dex and con.
I had a lot of fun playing a weretiger in a campaign, it's a +3LA to be a natural werecreature, meaning full control over transformations and DR 10/silver (+2LA for afflicted, DR 5/silver and no control). Weretigers get +12 str, +4 dex and con.
This would also be inappropriately done here, as he has seven free level adjustments, but no free hit dice, and lycanthropes add the hit dice of the animal to their own HD (in effect, when you become a natural weretiger (tigers have 6 HD), you gain six levels of animal and a +3 level adjustment, so a natural weretiger is actually nine levels higher than he was earlier as far as things like XP are concerned).
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Secondly, how it your DM handelling LA and Gestalt? I know that when I see the two I just let LA fill one "side" of a Gestalt build opposite actual class levels.
Given they are free, I imagine they're just added on (i.e. not gestalted).
In general, Draconic (+1) and Phrenic (+2) are two templates which I think offer a good return. Half-Fey is IIRC +2 also but it's not too dissimilar to Phrenic in many ways. The Blooded One template (+1) from Unapproachable East (I think, it's an FR book anyway) is a decent alternative to Draonic in may cases.
Since you have so much free LA, though, you could get away with a lot of things which might be sub-optimal otherwise. Hey, a Phrenic Half-Fey Cha-based caster would be horrible, all that +Cha and two sets of SLAs to dump on top of their gestalt spellcasting (because why take one spellcaster, when you could take two? Sorcerer|Dread Necro, maybe?).
Since you have so much free LA, though, you could get away with a lot of things which might be sub-optimal otherwise. Hey, a Phrenic Half-Fey Cha-based caster would be horrible, all that +Cha and two sets of SLAs to dump on top of their gestalt spellcasting (because why take one spellcaster, when you could take two? Sorcerer|Dread Necro, maybe?).
I've played a phrenic half-fey kaorti without any free LA (as a racial base for a Fiend of Possession).
Woodling has a fun combination of abilities if you can also cover up the fire vulnerability, and voidmind would be good except for the part about being controlled by mind flayers.
If you go for a spellcaster (or anyone else for whom low Strength and Small size aren't a problem), pixies are inordinately good, giving you flight, greater invisibility, damage reduction, level-based spell resistance, and solid ability score bonuses to everything except Strength, all for a +4 LA. If you were aiming to kill enemy spellcasters, this would be for the sneakier side of things.
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I had a lot of fun playing a weretiger in a campaign, it's a +3LA to be a natural werecreature, meaning full control over transformations and DR 10/silver (+2LA for afflicted, DR 5/silver and no control). Weretigers get +12 str, +4 dex and con.
This would also be inappropriately done here, as he has seven free level adjustments, but no free hit dice, and lycanthropes add the hit dice of the animal to their own HD (in effect, when you become a natural weretiger (tigers have 6 HD), you gain six levels of animal and a +3 level adjustment, so a natural weretiger is actually nine levels higher than he was earlier as far as things like XP are concerned).
Whoops forgot the tiger HD, ignore my suggestion.
I'd have to agree with pixie being a top choice for any spell based character, pretty much addresses every concern a low level caster will have in terms of survivability. Another interesting template is half-fiend, +4LA for a whole bunch of bonuses and stat boosts.
