Dumb question about half dragons:

[iwatt]

From the SRD:

Special Attacks: A half-dragon retains all the special attacks of the base creature and gains a breath weapon based on the dragon variety (see the table below), usable once per day. A half-dragon’s breath weapon deals 6d8 points of damage. A successful Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 half-dragon’s racial HD + half-dragon’s Con modifier) reduces damage by half.

For a human half dragon sorceror 6 with CHA 22, what is the save DC:

A) DC 19 = 10 + 3 (6/2) + 6 (Cha)

or

B) DC 16 = 10 + 0 (0/2) + 6 (Cha)


Sorry about this, I was up at 3:30 AM working on my thesis. The brain is really working slow now...

 

[Pinotage]

I believe that it's (b). A human has no racial HD and so only adds the Cha modifier.

Pinotage

 

[Infiniti2000]

Why are you using Charisma?

In any case, the racial hit dice of a human is zero. So, it would be 10 + Con modifier, whatever that is.

 

[iwatt]

Why are you using Charisma?

Because my brain is in pain!!!

Yeah, and now that I think about it the racial hit dice are 0 for a human, so the DC is pretty crappy.

I got confused when looking at the dragon disciple, which has the following:

The DC of the breath weapon is 10 + class level + Con modifier.

Anyhow, 6d8 with a ref DC of 14 (in this case) seems pretty useless. Since I already screwed up IMC (using option (B) ) I think I'll keep using it.