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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8516055" data-attributes="member: 15700">Nothing I remember or could find that says NPCs have to be humanoids, even if the rules seem to imply.  But humanoid doesn't exclude undead.  That claim is....weird at the very least (Hello Ctenmillr, or even Strahd!). They  just have to be unique personalities with their own traits.  Since the death knight came out in 1981 in Fiend Folio, and the DL modules came after, Soth is statt'd out in those modules as a death knight (with unique attributes and personality).  He follows the same rules as PC do.  I.e., his fireball does the same thing as a 20th level magic user PC's fireball would do.  To argue that a 9 HD PC can't cast a 20th level fireball proves they don't follow the same rules is odd to me, because each class does different things anyway.  A 20th level cleric will have different casting ability as a 20th level paladin for instance.  If his abilities didn't follow the same rules, then there wouldn't even be any mention of "20th level caster ability", it would just define what the power did right there in the stat block.  It's literally comparing his powers to a PC of a certain level.</blockquote>