Organizing Non Race-Point Races by Race Power Category


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Okay, so after one Bestiary, Pathfinder seems to have completely dropped the Race Builder system. That doesn't mean that the idea of overpowered races messing with party CR has to be over. It would be nice if Paizo or someone were to organize all the races by the race levels (standard, advanced, and monstrous). There are so many possible races, I'd love to be able to just take any that don't have race points and give them an average RP value based on what category they are in. (For instance, I'm fairly certain that Green Martians from Worldscape are Monstrous races, considering one green martian alone will knock the party up 2 levels at lower levels)

Has anyone already done this, and if not, would anyone like to hazard a guess or an educated assumption on what non-pointed races are?


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Inner Sea Races introduced another system for rating races by power level. Every race in that book has between 0 and 2 asterisks by its name in the section giving basic racial stats for each race and sub-race.

Of course, since that system has never been used outside of that book, it is useful only for the races described in that book.

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There's actually softcover books that introduced more abilities for the race builder. RP is really only useful for measuring a race's scope, not their overall power level.

Inner Sea Races do a pretty good job pointing out which races are overpowered or broken in certain campaigns.

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