Deep Gnome slippery defense - ECL imbalance

[b00seven]

I have started RPing a Deep gnome, and noticed they don't get slippery defense (-4ac) I can understand that this ability may be considered Overpowered, especially at high lvls. However, the class still has an ECL of +3. This makes the class ridiculously difficult to play. And you man notice there are no deep gnomes in UD.

I want to play my deep gnome for RP reasons. However, I think this gimping of the class breaks it. To compensate for removing slippery defense the ECL should be lowered to +2 (Drow are far more overpowered due to natural abilities than a Deep Gnome w/o slippery defense). Removing slippery defense and keeping the ECL so high breaks the class.

[decado]

Odd. The server rules state Deep Gnomes are ECL2.

http://bgtscc.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6

Deep Gnomes now no longer gain the feat Slippery Defense (+4 Dodge AC). As a result they are ECL 2 instead of ECL 3

[b00seven]

I think you are right... must have miscounted the xp... nm then

[Blackman D]

yes the AC was removed and ECL lowered for it