I'm trying to figure out templates in pathfinder - specifically, how they interact with hit dice.
Many templates give abilities based off of hit dice, but I'm unclear whether it should be based off of racial hit dice, or total hit dice, including those from character level.
For example, were I to stat up a fey-creature halfling sorcerer 8, would it get two abilities from the fey-creature template (as it has 8 class hit dice) or none (as it has 0 racial hit dice)?
I remember in 3.5 there was a general indication, especially towards the end of the product cycle, when things were based on total or racial hit dice, but I don't see much of anything to correctly guide me for Pathfinder. Anyone got any ideas? Am I completely missing something here?
I always do it off of total hit dice, but my recommendation is to do whichever works better for what you're trying to do.
In some cases, it might be better to only use racial HD (for example, when you don't want an ability to be overpowering).
Not usually a problem I have; I'm usually more worried about abilities being underpowered :)