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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1705463" data-attributes="member: 1656">I would use the caster's racial hit dice.  In the case of a human with sorcerer levels, 0.  In the case of an ogre with sorcerer levels, 3.  Shapechange, via Alter Self, has no effect on the caster's hit points.Now, if you feel that hit points don't change, but hit dice do, then there's more weirdness to contend with.If I'm an 10th level caster, and I polymorph into a creature with 10 hit dice, then (even though my hit points remain the same) am I considered a creature with 20 hit dice for purposes of resisting spells like Blasphemy?Am I, in fact, able to cast Alter Self at all, since I cannot assume a form with more than 5 hit dice, and no matter what form I assume, it will have X racial hit dice and 10 class hit dice, exceeding the limit?Or do the form's hit dice 'overwrite' my normal racial and class hit dice, so that when I Alter Self into a bugbear, I'm now considered a creature with 3 hit dice, instead of 10 (even though my hit points still reflect my 10 sorcerer hit dice)... making me susceptible to Sleep spells, etc?-Hyp.</blockquote>