azlanti

A new player has asked about being a pure blood azlanti. From what I see it says they get a + 2 to all stats, is that all it gets, or does it get the normal human stuff added? I.e. the feat, and skill point

It receives everything a human does, except the human +2 to a single score is replaced by +2 to all scores.

...wow...that's OP

Yes not really meant as a PC race.

They get it all, only difference between an azlanti and a human is that the azlanti get +2 to all stats.

It's the same as a normal human except that instead of +2 to one stat, you get +2 to all of them. It isn't designed for PC use.

You have a few options:

1) Say no. It's overpowered. (my recommendation).

2) Say yes, but demand a 1 level adjustment. I.e. if the rest of the players start off at 3rd level, have this guy start at 2nd. This is fair because with +2 to all stats it's easy to turn a 20 pt buy into the equivalent of a 35 point buy with only one stat dumped to 9.

3) Say yes, but have the campaign be about fighting aboleths, and he's very vulnerable to the mind-control of aboleths because Azlanti were bred by aboleths to be their puppets.

Yup. Shouldn't be allowed as a PC race with those stats unless everyone gets to play one. Given the Advanced Simple Template I'd strongly argue they aren't worth a full +1 level adjustment, though.

On the other hand, if he just wants to be one thematically...just using the normal human rules seems entirely reasonable. Just assume he was a bit below average by Azlanti standards.

I find that the pureblooded Azlanti race will balance itself out by about 10th level, possibly 12th depending on class choice and general optimisation level. It's definitely a boon to MAD classes (e.g. Monk) moreso than it is SAD.

And, of course, you can't get things like early-entry into Eldritch Knight or similar using a pureblood Azlanti race under normal conditions.

There is at least one option for a player to get access to the race in Shattered Star, with some conditions:

So there's that. Another option is to allow it, but give the player a reduced point-buy (e.g. 10) while letting the others have a higher one (e.g. 20).

If they want it for the stats, I would say no. If they want it for the fluff, tell them to build an ordinary human and we can say he is Azlanti.

Peet