Adding hit dice to skeletons and zombies

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by charlieluce

That was the first thing I tried, Shadow. Didn't work. I didn't try the "Allow PCs to add Bonus HD" setting, but now doing so I see that it doesn't work for a character created as an NPC, but does work for a character created as a PC, even if it is then converted to an NPC.

So you did get this to work? I just tried everything I can think of for getting the Additional Hit Dice to show up and "nothing" works.

The only way I can get this to work is to make the character a NPC. Then go to the "Background" tab and click "Customize" and check mark "Customize Racial Special Abilities". Then under the "Custom Monster Details" section to increase the "Hit Dice" counter.

That does work but it seems based on what Mathias is saying that the old way of just adding "HD" under the "Classes" tab should work....

[Mathias]

From the FAQ for the last update:

• The option to allow a player character to add racial HD was not working. If the option is still not appearing, please save and re-load the file.

Apparently, that save/re-load issue is not just applying to characters created before the change - I'll put that on the bug list, because apparently, the list of what should be shown on that table is not getting updated when you add the skeleton template and make the human eligible for additional hd. I thought that caveat on the fix only applied to characters created before that bug fix, and when I listed the process earlier, I thought it was still working the way it did a while ago, the last time I needed to work on a character with additional HD.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Mathias

From the FAQ for the last update:

• The option to allow a player character to add racial HD was not working. If the option is still not appearing, please save and re-load the file.

Apparently, that save/re-load issue is not just applying to characters created before the change - I'll put that on the bug list, because apparently, the list of what should be shown on that table is not getting updated when you add the skeleton template and make the human eligible for additional hd. I thought that caveat on the fix only applied to characters created before that bug fix, and when I listed the process earlier, I thought it was still working the way it did a while ago, the last time I needed to work on a character with additional HD.

I am glad I am not going crazy!

The 'Customize' option I listed above works. So at least there is a work around.

[Talok55]

Checking the allow pc's to add hit dice option in the house rules section seems to work,