grylock's page

We recently started with new characters in a homebrew campaign, and one of the players expressed interest in playing a tiefling. After looking over the Bestiary entry, my DM said "Huh. 3 energy resistances plus the other stuff seems a bit overpowered compared to the other races. If you want a somewhat monstrous PC, go with the Half-Orc, please".

Now, noone argued, as we could see his point. I believe in 3.5, the tiefling with the exact same abilities (i think) had a +1 LA (or was it +2?). Pathfinder doesn't seem to have LA per se anymore, and apparently covers that in the "Monsters as PCs" chapter in the bestiary.

My question is, did anyone else have a similar moment with his DM? How many of you feel the tiefling (and other no-racial HD races) are overpowered in comparison to the core races? If you feel they are not, why?

I noticed several abilities in the PRPG with a wording like this:

"a rogue with this ability can gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the rogue’s level"

Especially for multi-class characters, that is a rather unclear wording. Is that supposed to mean class level or character level?

Note that there are also several abilities, like cleric domain powers, that explicitly reference the class level like this:

"This effect persists for a number of rounds equal to 1/2
your cleric level (minimum 1)"

Currently i'm assuming that if class level is meant, it is referenced as in the cleric example, otherwise it means character level. Any insights on that?