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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 2273150" data-attributes="member: 6783">No rule as such.  In fact, hit dice alone are not enough to justify a level adjustment.  Hit dice are effectively like taking a class level - generally a weak one at that unless you're a dragon or an outsider.Level Adjustments are added for the creature's special abilities, including (but not limited to):Zero-sum ability adjustments - for example a creature that gets a +2 to strength with no corresponding decrease in another ability.  Most of the humanoids fall into this category with better than average physical stats.Better than human natural abilities: being large (reach), better than average senses (bonuses to spot/listen, blindsense, tremorsense, etc).Spell Like Abilities like Cone of Cold 1/day, or Teleport at will.Supernatural Abilities such as breath weapon, petrifying gaze, eye rays, etc,Spell Resistance, Damage Reduction, other resistances.I believe Savage Species goes into this in more detail, but a lot of it has to be judged/balanced by the dm.</blockquote>