I'm not sure... Not only would this bring Tashi back up to the party average quicker, but cheaper as well.<br/><br/>Total Cost normally; 11,000 + 16,000 + 18,000 = 45,000 (Tashi would be roughly ECL 18 when everyone else is ECL 20.)<br/>Total Cost if spent early; 3,000 + 7,000 + 9,000 = 19,000 (Tashi would be ECL 9 when everyone else is ECL 11.)<br/><br/>I suppose what would balance this out is that Tashi still has to put in two bloodline levels... (So in the above example... he'd be more like Level 16, ECL 18... and Level 8, ECL 9.) because I'm not going to allow buying off bloodline levels on top of everything. Rather than almost 5 'dead' levels...<br/><br/>But yeah, if that's the case, then Tashi would just need to pay 3,000 XP whenever he wants to pay off the ECL. But I haven't planned enough XP gains to have<em>two</em>level ups in this portion... so you'd have to choose between awakening the true red eyes mid-campaign or it happening during the time-skip. I'd suggest putting that 3000 XP into gaining level 4 and paying off the ECL during timeskip anyways since the XP gains there will be static.<br/><br/>Oof. All these rules. O_o<br/><br/>:P