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<blockquote data-quote="npiccini" data-source="post: 3241067" data-attributes="member: 18769">Recent adventure my party's wizard was facing creatures he had never fought and wanted to know if he could cast Deeper Slumber.&nbsp; Since the spell only affects 10 HD creatures or less, he wanted to know if his character would have any indication of whether the spell would succeed or not.&nbsp; I considered for awhile honestly, since a great number of people have emphasized how hit die aren't real and there is no true world parallel.&nbsp; However, considering certain spells such as Deeper Slumber are effective against only certain HD values, I figured there had to be a way for a caster to guage the potency of a spell in those circumstances.&nbsp; Naturally the first place I turned to were the, IMO, great articles on WoTC on knowledge of certain creatures.&nbsp; The benchmark there was 10+HD of a creature to determine information a character would know about.&nbsp; The only problem was none of the references in there indicated a creature's hit die.&nbsp; I settled on a spellcraft check with the same rules 10+HD of creature to see if a character could determine a spell's potential effect on a target.&nbsp; Any input on this ruling? what might others have done?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="npiccini, post: 3241067, member: 18769"] Recent adventure my party's wizard was facing creatures he had never fought and wanted to know if he could cast Deeper Slumber. Since the spell only affects 10 HD creatures or less, he wanted to know if his character would have any indication of whether the spell would succeed or not. I considered for awhile honestly, since a great number of people have emphasized how hit die aren't real and there is no true world parallel. However, considering certain spells such as Deeper Slumber are effective against only certain HD values, I figured there had to be a way for a caster to guage the potency of a spell in those circumstances. Naturally the first place I turned to were the, IMO, great articles on WoTC on knowledge of certain creatures. The benchmark there was 10+HD of a creature to determine information a character would know about. The only problem was none of the references in there indicated a creature's hit die. I settled on a spellcraft check with the same rules 10+HD of creature to see if a character could determine a spell's potential effect on a target. Any input on this ruling? what might others have done? [/QUOTE]

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