But LA+2 is pretty harsh (and LA is just dumb anyway), so I'd like to get rid of that, too.
6: Not a change to the race itself, but while Savage Species only ever tells players to use standard ability score assignments, the character uses a 15-point point buy and doesn't gain full hit points from her first HD, to represent being nonelite (with the huge racial ability score bonuses, the result is an ability score array that isn't too far from what a standard character gets, anyway))Īlmost everything that the ECL 5 "lesser succubus" has is important, so I don't want to remove features beyond what I've taken out already. 5: A very minor change to its type/subtype, to make it Native. 4: Since favored classes aren't specified beyond the Succubus class used for the savage progression, I made its favored classes any of the three listed as "the best multiclassing choices" (p.197), whichever one the character takes a level in first. 3: Since bonus languages aren't listed, I gave it "Any" (other than Druidic, etc.). In the case of Alternate Form/Change Shape which is inconsistent between editions, I just made it work like the Changeling ability (RoE p.41), but usable as a standard action and with the option to hide wings/tail. 2: Since Savage Species is 3.0, where succubi had way more spell-like abilities and a few other differences compared to 3.5, I'm taking only the features they have in common-so claws that deal 1d3, SLAs beginning and ending with detect good, detect thoughts, and suggestion, and only the following class skills: Bluff, Concentration, Disguise, Escape Artist, Hide, Knowledge (any 1), Listen, Move Silently, Search, and Spot. (The specific homebrew aspects are as follows: 1: Savage Species says you need to finish an entire progression, but I'm cutting it off at ECL 5 to describe a "lesser succubus"-characters can't take any more Succubus class levels even if they wanted to.
But that's at least way better than 6 HD, LA+6, so I decided to go with it, at least as a starting point.
Savage Species offers a progression on pages 195-197 that gives everything I really want by ECL 5-problem being, that's still 3 HD with a +2 LA. I wanted to make a weaker succubus character, so I didn't need all the features of the ECL 12 version in the Monster Manual.