Question about Shade Hit Dice

[Splurch]

I am making a few shade characters for a game I am setting up and I have the Dragon Issue with the shade template in it also the forgotten realms setting book (have to find it somewhere in garage). In the magazine it states 4 LA but it mentions HD, Skills, & Feats. I can't for the life of me tell if they get HD every other level of the 4 levels (2 &4) with skills and feats since they have a CR of +2, and if they get skill points how many (just int bonus?). Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.


Splurch

 

[Drowbane]

The HD, skills, etc only matter if you have racial HD.

the FRCS listed Shade as LA +2... later sources gave it LA +4.

Either way, it gets out performed by the Shadow Creature template in Lords of Madness (+2 LA).