hit dice
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:05 pm
Hello,
I was wondering if someone could clarify to me the meaning of 'hit dice'. Spells are often listed as only affecting enemies of x hit dice or less, and I am confused as to what this means.
To give an example, death spell affects only those of 8 hit dice or less. I have always presumes that this just meant a certain difficulty of enemy - I have always found the spell kills of most weak baddies, but not stronger ones. Just now, though, I was playing through the mind flayer section and found that the spell not only kills umber hulks every time, mind flayers sometimes (why only sometimes?) but also the big boy himself, the elder brain? Surely he's counted as a pretty tough enemy?
mcgregor
I was wondering if someone could clarify to me the meaning of 'hit dice'. Spells are often listed as only affecting enemies of x hit dice or less, and I am confused as to what this means.
To give an example, death spell affects only those of 8 hit dice or less. I have always presumes that this just meant a certain difficulty of enemy - I have always found the spell kills of most weak baddies, but not stronger ones. Just now, though, I was playing through the mind flayer section and found that the spell not only kills umber hulks every time, mind flayers sometimes (why only sometimes?) but also the big boy himself, the elder brain? Surely he's counted as a pretty tough enemy?
mcgregor