Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Wolfshade 09-11-07, 05:21 PM	Template such as celestrial and fiendish creature from mm1, gain power with more hit-dice such as better damage reduction. My question is this, is it only racial hit-dice that count for these abilities or does class levels count as well?
Omega_Grey 09-11-07, 08:48 PM	I am basically 100% sure (probably more like 93.6%) that it goes by racial hit dice and not class level.
Crimson_Concerto 09-11-07, 08:58 PM	I was under the impression that all HD were fair game, including class HD and not just racial HD, but don't quote me on that one...
Meep326 09-11-07, 09:18 PM	It's somewhat split, if I remember correctly the Half-Celestial and Half-Feind spell-like abilities allow you to have racial and/or class levels to work. I'd say you'd get em, that's part of the LA/CR adjustment.
Fireclave 09-11-07, 09:29 PM	Generally, if an ability runs off of racial HD and not HD derived from class levels, the ability description will say so. For example, creatures with the Half-Celestial template gain more spell-like abilities as they advance in HD; the DC for a half-dragon's breath weapon is explicitly a function of its racial HD.
reaper5081 09-12-07, 12:39 PM	I was under the impression that all HD were fair game, including class HD and not just racial HD, but don't quote me on that one... This is correct. ALL HD count.
dman11235 09-12-07, 01:00 PM	Otherwise there would be some pretty terrible races. Githzerai? PR 5 period and ML 1 period. Githyanki same deal.