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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RUMBLETiGER" data-source="post: 5742392" data-attributes="member: 6674868">Understand the difference between a racial template and a race.  Templates provide no Hit dice, and therefore no skill points, no feats, no saves, etc.  Templates add extra abilities onto a basic race.  Because of the Race template, you'll never be a level 1 character.  You come out at birth effectively with 4 levels worth of power, but without a class, you technically have no hitpoints.  Yeah, doesn't make sense from a reality standpoint, but we're not talking reality, we're talking game mechanics.  When you start at your first level of your class, you're effectively a level 5 character.  A Half-Celestial, Paladin-level-1 stands next to a human Paladin-level-1 and the Half Celestial is stronger.  he's 4-levels-more stronger.  In theory then, a Half-Celestial Paladin-level-1 could stand next to a Human Paladin-level-5 would effectively be equals.  The human would have more hitpoints and saves, but the Half-celestial would have a number of abilities for this racial template that make up for it.  At least in the theory of game mechanics.Note the Blackguard Prestige Class entry on fallen Paladins.  You may literally trade Paladin levels for levels in the PrC.  Because of this, a level 20 Blackguard need not ever have class levels in Paladin, those class levels have been obsorbed and transformed into the Blackguard PrC.  See the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/prestigeClassProgressions.htm" target="_blank">Epic Blackguard</a> progression for this.</blockquote>

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