Talk:Wastecrawler (3.5e Race)

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Why do they have LA, why not just give them two more racial HD? Noting that their sense of sound is found elsewhere, should they have a save against being deafened? Could you describe in more detail the mouth (do they have teeth? If so what kind? What is their positioning in the mouth? And how do they move there jaw?)? Why is jump not a racial skill (the other two Str skills are)? --Franken Kesey 17:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

• Honestly, it's because they're broken. LA is a better balancing factor than HD, because it sucks harder. Normally I'm opposed to it, but having six arms essentially triples their damage output at all levels, which means their major racial benefit, unlike most, scales with them.
• Nah. Deafness is deafness. Just because they use a different organ, that doesn't mean it doesn't function the same.
• Their mouth is like a human's, but wider.
• Jump is not a racial skill because their bodies are not built well for it. Their bodies are built rather like a centipede that's rearing back. They don't jump well for the same reasons that centipedes don't jump at all. On top of that, their slow-moving nature impedes the quick-twitch movement needed to jump. If their move speed didn't already impose a jump penalty, I would probably write one in. --DanielDraco 18:03, 28 April 2012 (UTC)