Racial Levels
In the same manner that the abilities granted by a template can be broken down into a level advancement form, the abilities of a PC race with level adjustments can be divided into base racial abilities (equivalent to a human, elf, or other standard PC race; +2 / +2 / -2 to any 3 Abilities and racial levels to fill out the remainder of the race's level adjustment. For example, a drow can be broken into a set of "base" drow abilities (LA +0), plus two extra drow levels, thus bringing the character up to her full +2 level adjustment. Racial levels allow a player to create a 1st-level character of a level-adjusted race at the same power level as a 1st-level character of a standard race. Thereafter, the character can take racial levels in lue of class levels in order to gain her full complement of racial abilities.
Converting Monsters to Race Levels
Drow (+2 ECL) Snirfneblin (+2 ECL) Dark gnomes with latent magic or psionic abilities. Multi armed psionic humanoid insect like race. Aasimar (+1 ECL) Humanoids with celestial blood. Tiefling (+1 ECL) Humanoids with fiendish blood. Maeluth (+1ECL 1/2 breed between dwarves and devils Mechanatrix (+1ECL) Mostly human with one or more inorganic clockwork feature. Shyft (+1ECL) Humans that are infused with the material from the Ethereal Plane Wispling (+1ECL) 1/2 breed between halflings and demons. Jinx (+1 ECL) Gnomes that have fiendish blood. Stone Child (+4 ECL) races of stone | Avariel (+1 ECL) Wiki Resemble elves in many physical features, except that they have wings Alicorn (+4 ECL) | Jovian (+5 ECL) Humanoids with Giant characteristics Kestrel (+2 ECL) Halflings with wings and avian features Piper An offspring of a satyr and human. Mind Ripper |