ECL and Creature Hit Dice

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Kendall-DM

Guys, I was getting LA confused with ECL. I wanted all creatures without class levels to operate the same as 1 HD humanoids, that is they all started at XP 0 and proceeded from there. Unfortunately, it is impossible to do in HL, due to the fact that the racial HD disappear even without any class levels. I can't figure out how to 1) remove the XP requirements for the racial HD and 2) keep the racial HD as they are. This has been a house rule in my game campaign for years, so doing in HL was just something I was trying to get working. Unfortunately, I've just been adding the necessary XP to give it levels, but it doesn't accurately reflect the real XP.

Just an impossible task at this juncture, I've always thought ECL and LA were just unnecessary, as I did without in my game for 1st and 2nd Edition without any real issues. Well, that's that I guess. Thanks for the input!

Well that is pretty easy actually. Attached to this post is a user file with an adjustment that removes the LA value for any race selected. Just tested an Aasimar when added with to a character with this adjustment became 0HD by default and 1HD when adding one level of cleric.

Hope that helps...