So a Fiendish Servant eventually picks up SR when the blackguard reaches 19-20 ChL. It gets SR equal to the blackguards ChL+5.
So what? The fiendish template already provides SR equal to the creatures HDx2 (maximum 25).
Let's take a fiendish warhorse as possessed by as blackguard with 16 ChL's. At this point it has yet to have the special SR provided by the blackguard class feature.
Yet, as a 4 HD (base) creature with +6 HD (for blackguard ChL), it has SR 20 (due to being fiendish).
Am I missing something here? What gives?
Is it something as silly as the rule unintentionally suggesting the fiendish template is not actually used? Is there a semantics problem here? It seems obvious that the servant is indeed fiendish.
So what? The fiendish template already provides SR equal to the creatures HDx2 (maximum 25).
Let's take a fiendish warhorse as possessed by as blackguard with 16 ChL's. At this point it has yet to have the special SR provided by the blackguard class feature.
Yet, as a 4 HD (base) creature with +6 HD (for blackguard ChL), it has SR 20 (due to being fiendish).
Am I missing something here? What gives?
Is it something as silly as the rule unintentionally suggesting the fiendish template is not actually used? Is there a semantics problem here? It seems obvious that the servant is indeed fiendish.