Determine HD of an enemy

[demi123]

As a player, is there any way to determine the Hit Dice of an enemy I am about to encounter?

 

[Nail]

What's your resources? Do you have Holocaust Cloak?

 

[Sound of Azure]

As a player, is there any way to determine the Hit Dice of an enemy I am about to encounter?

Not accurately, no, but you can narrow it down to a "gut feeling" of how powerful the opponent is in relation to yourself (pushover/easy/ even/ tough/ aaugh! run away!!!) using the sense motive skill vs opponent's bluff skill. Have a look in Complete Adventurer (page 102) for specific details.

 

[Vorput]

I second the complete adventurer ideas the only one I know of, Although, there's this wonderful footnote in Trap the soul that makes one wonder..

Before the actual casting of trap the soul, you must procure a gem of at least 1,000 gp value for every Hit Die possessed by the creature to be trapped. If the gem is not valuable enough, it shatters when the entrapment is attempted. (While creatures have no concept of level or Hit Dice as such, the value of the gem needed to trap an individual can be researched. Remember that this value can change over time as creatures gain more Hit Dice.)

 

[Nail]

I second the complete adventurer ideas the only one I know of, ..

The feat "Combat Intuition" in CAdv make the Sense Motive Check a free action.