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No LA entry and LA-- races and template interprations
« on: March 22, 2018, 06:22:53 PM »
Quote from: Savage Species page 115
Templates often apply to monsters that cannot, or should not, be characters (for instance, because their Intelligence is too low). Level adjustments for such templates only apply if the resulting templated monster can be a character. In cases when a template makes an otherwise unplayable creature into a viable character (such as the incarnate construct template), this book gives level adjustments for the templated version of the creature.

"Savage Species also contains an entire chapter on estimating LA. And while the designated outcome (such as paragon = 12) is houserules, the required usage of them to define unspecified values for Players wanting to use them is not."

This means you have to use their guidelines for missing LA templates, and any variant assigning of LA (which a DM can say no to) must conform to those rules to be legal.