Editing Cambion (section)

==3.5 Cambion PC Stats==
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::Ability Score Modifier (Common): +5 Strength, +3 Dexterity, +3 Constitution, -4 Wisdom (minimum 3), -10 Charisma (minimum 2); if Charisma penalty would drop Charisma below 2, then the remaining penalty is applied to Intelligence (minimum 3) instead.
::Ability Score Modifier (Greater): +2 Strength, +2 Dexterity, +2 Constitution, +4 Intelligence, +10 Wisdom, +10 Charisma
::Medium
::Outsider
::Base land speed 40 feet
::Darkvision 60 feet
::6 levels in Outsider, which provides 6d8 Hit Dice, BAB +6, Fort +5, Ref +5, Will +5.
::Racial Skills: 8 * (2 + Int modifier) skill points, class skills are Climb, Gather Information, Hide Knowledge (Local), Listen, Move Silently, Sense Motive, Spot, Tumble.
::Racial Feats: 3 bonus feats
::Natural Armor Bonus: +2
::Spell-like Ability: Charm Person with caster level equalling Hit Dice at-will, Greater Cambions only.
::Aligned Strike: A cambion's natural weapons and any weapon it wields are treated as being both Chaotic Aligned and Evil Aligned for overcoming damage reduction.
::Alternate Form (Su): A cambion can assume the form of a single, specific Medium humanoid as a standard action once per day. This functions as a Polymorph spell (caster level 6), except it does not provide any healing. A cambion can remain in its alternate form until it chooses to return to its natural form.
::Silent Metal (Ex): A cambion has no armor check penalty on Hide and Move Silently checks.
::Favored Class: [[Assassin]]
::[[Level Adjustment]]: +4 for Common Cambions, +5 for Greater Cambions

Now, if you're at all familiar with how 3.5 races should work, you've no doubt realized what an absolute '''fucking mess''' this racial profile is. Insanely overpowered in some spots and equally insanely weak in some, having a [[Prestige Class]] as a favored class, odd numbered ability score modifiers, and all in all it's a freaking mess. It's so bad that the writer, Wolfgang Baur, actually apologized for it on Enworld, admitting that perhaps it wasn't really worth differentiating it from the standard half-fiend, and that between being a rush-job that no editor fixed up and trying to adhere too closely to the cambion's 2e mechanics, it ended up as the piece of junk you see now.