Creatures as players [Archive] - Wizards Community

Creatures as players [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Crawdaddy75
07-29-07, 05:32 PM Our group has a little bit of confusion as to the abilities of creatures as players. When you select a creature {a gnoll for example} at first level do you get the class hit die AND the creature hit die. Like 2d8 hp for the gnoll + 1d10 for a fighter at first level?
Radijs
07-29-07, 05:52 PM No. And yes.

A gnoll has a LA (thats level adjustment) of +1 and 2 racial hit die.
So the minimum level at which a gnoll is playable is level 4.
At that level it will get 2d8+1d10 as its hit dice and is effectively a 4th level character.
for more info see my sig.
JLaurHughes
07-29-07, 05:55 PM Yes you would get class hit die, however you cannot advance in the class until your XP meets that of of a character a level equal to your HD+LA higher. For example: The Gnoll cannot advance as a fighter until you've reached ECL=3HD+1LA=4. For an ECL4 Character is 10,000 XP.

Edit: Radijs beat me to it, but said the same thing.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Crawdaddy75 07-29-07, 05:32 PM	Our group has a little bit of confusion as to the abilities of creatures as players. When you select a creature {a gnoll for example} at first level do you get the class hit die AND the creature hit die. Like 2d8 hp for the gnoll + 1d10 for a fighter at first level?
Radijs 07-29-07, 05:52 PM	No. And yes. A gnoll has a LA (thats level adjustment) of +1 and 2 racial hit die. So the minimum level at which a gnoll is playable is level 4. At that level it will get 2d8+1d10 as its hit dice and is effectively a 4th level character. for more info see my sig.
JLaurHughes 07-29-07, 05:55 PM	Yes you would get class hit die, however you cannot advance in the class until your XP meets that of of a character a level equal to your HD+LA higher. For example: The Gnoll cannot advance as a fighter until you've reached ECL=3HD+1LA=4. For an ECL4 Character is 10,000 XP. Edit: Radijs beat me to it, but said the same thing.