Specifically, you can't become large at level 1
Yeah, I guessed they wouldn't be approved. I'm just building off of the other one. And yes, you can be Large at level 1 without any LA adjustment. Large size LA adjustment comes from reach, and I specifically stated they only had regular reach. This is going off of a Medium Large creature thing I saw done with kobolds. A lot of the stuff is done to remediate the losses attained by Large. Turns out, you can't be longer than 8 feet or something without being Large size. It's mostly just to account for the tail. If you actually look at it, it's quite a penalty. The Naga has two squares, but can only threaten from one with a regular 5 ft. reach. The other square is open to attack without repercussion. I was going to add some sort of Coil to use a move action to coil the tail and get rid of that, but I kept it for balance stuff.
randomly insert racial skill/stat modifers
How are the stat/skill mods random? You can only be one. It's like choosing a subspecies. I went through the original Naga race and pulled out a bunch of things, like the swim speed, and relocated it to just a single feat. Naga can only take
one base racial feat, and they have to. It's essentially just all the options I thought of for that race.
give yourself a burrow speed
I don't see why they can't have a 5 ft. burrow- my Half-Elf is faster than that. It's also a subterranean creature. Which I have
no intention of being. I'm not even going to make anything but a Water Naga, and not even going to take any of the Racial Feats (which
do have penalties).
or give yourself a paralysis & 1d4 con damage poison.
It's not Con poison. It's just hp damage. Like the poison dagger our group's rogue has. And at level 9, when they would be taking this feat, is that really so much? Essentially, it just buffs their bite with an alternative damage. I thought the weak paralysis poison thing was actually less powerful than the other, actually.
Here are some of my random stabs at naga.
I removed Stability, and I don't want to give them spells and such. They aren't innate magic creatures. By "water" or "earth", it means the habitat that race is adapted to. Subspecies, like "Aquatic Elf." I like how you did the different bonuses based on race, makes sense.
Yeah, your naga do seem a bit OP to me. And theres the -4 to hide with the large size which is countered by the +4 to hide from racial abilities. That doesn't really make sense to me. And gaining permenant ability scores through a single feat as well as multiple other bonuses at the same time doesn't seem all that fair either.
That's the point. They aren't taking up much more space than a regular human, aside from the tail. I kind of assumed snakes were good hiders. They really get more debuffs than buffs from Large size. For instance: only being able to wield weapons smaller than them, the negative to AC, and the lack of the extra reach. Like that one alternate kobold thing, the Naga is supposed to be a mix between Medium and Large. I wasn't sure how the +Stat things were going to work, as I don't make feats often. If that's OP, I can remove it. Also, a single feat is supposed to give multiple bonuses, especially one that requires 3 other prereq feats.
Your tail is adorable!
Of course that's a Yuan-ti and not a Naga. The main difference? Naga only have human heads, while Yuan-ti have the entire human upper torso. Page 262 of the 3.5e monsterous manual has Yuan Ti, while naga are found on 191. A homebrewed naga can be whatever they want to be though, I imagine.
Ack. Existing D&D Nagas are freaky. I thought that Yaun-Ti abominations were humanoid snakes, and then the purebloods were humanoids with snakelike qualities. Is there another one in the MM? This is going off the pics in the thing.
You might just want to get rid of Large, Small Torso, and Compact. That stuff is all pretty strange. Also it allows you to swallow whole gnomes, which I am pretty sure the GM said he did not want you to be able to do. (Also cause +8 to a skill other then swim is very strange.)
Aww. But my pet cornsnake can eat things that size proportionally. Gnomes are 3 ft. tall at most.
Small Torso is just to explain some of the things about how they can't wield Large weapons and how they have lower reach than most Large creatures. If it's really that much of a problem, I can remove it. >.<
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