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ibx33 10-25-05, 06:49 PM	So this section on reducing level adjustment. My DM said he would accept if I choose to do it with my half-giant barbarian (LA +1) . Now, I was just going to pay as much as the gnoll in the example, but then I saw "racial hit die." I'll be darned, but I've been playing D&D for about 6 or so years, and I don't know what racial hit die means. Later, it just says 2 hit die (in the example) Are those racial hit die, or something else I don't understand? So, would I pay the 5,000 that it talks about in the example, or only 3,000? (LA +1, +3 class levels, - 1) x 1000 as opposed to (LA+1, +3 class levels, +2 hit die, -1) - Gnoll example It won't even matter that much, but I'd like to know. (I'm pretty sure it would be 3000, since I've been looking at that section while typing this)
Carmath The Pure 10-25-05, 07:11 PM	Racial hit dice are HD that come from the character's race, not class levels. Gnolls straight from the MM hve 2HD, so anyone wanting to play a gnoll has 2 racial hit dice in addition to class hit dice. A half-giant does not have racial HD, so you don't have to include that in your calculation. You would pay 3000xp.
ibx33 10-25-05, 07:31 PM	Aha. Thank you.