Spectre smacks a familiar...

[Bad Paper]

...so what happens? Can it permanently lose hit dice?

 

[Thanee]

Heh.

Nice question. Well, since a familiar does not have levels and usually only one HD (except that it is assumed to have more to base effects on), it will probably simply die? Pretty harsh, though...

Bye
Thanee

 

[Shin Okada]

From SRD

Hit Dice: For the purpose of effects related to number of Hit Dice, use the master’s character level or the familiar’s normal HD total, whichever is higher.

So a familiar dies when it gets negative levels equals to his master's level. But it actually has only 1 (or so) of HD. So it dies if it fails in one (or so times of) fort save when 24 hours have past.

 

[Thanee]

Losing HD is not really an effect related to the number of HD, I'd say (it doesn't really matter for the effect how many HD you have, you always lose the same number).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Hypersmurf]

Losing HD is not really an effect related to the number of HD, I'd say (it doesn't really matter for the effect how many HD you have, you always lose the same number).

Right... which is why he said it dies if it fails one Fort save, since it loses its only hit die.

But until 24 hours is up, the death is related to number of hit dice - if the number of negative levels exceeds hit dice, you die.

-Hyp.

 

[Thanee]

Oops, should have read that more careful, I guess.

Bye
Thanee

 

[hong]

You know, it's fairly obvious that it all depends: is it a European or African familiar?

WHY AM I STILL HAVING TO DO ALL THE WORK AROUND HERE??//