Does a level 3 Swashbuckler gain Panache from killing a 1-HD creature?

Question

Killing Blow with a Light or One-Handed Piercing Melee Weapon: When the swashbuckler reduces a creature to 0 or fewer hit points with a light or one-handed piercing melee weapon attack while in combat, she regains 1 panache point. Destroying an unattended object, reducing a helpless or unaware creature to 0 or fewer hit points, or reducing a creature that has fewer Hit Dice than half the swashbuckler’s character level to 0 or fewer hit points doesn’t restore any panache.

Does a level 3 Swashbuckler gain Panache from killing a 1-HD creature? Obviously 1 is less than half of 3, but also you should "round down" in Pathfinder.

Answer 1

That swashbuckler regains panache for that enemy's defeat

Half of a level 3 swashbuckler's character level rounds down to 1. Because 1 Hit Die is effectively equal to half that swashbuckler's character level (rather than 1 Hit Die being fewer than that swashbuckler's character level), that swashbuckler does gain panache for reducing a 1 Hit Die creature's hp to 0 or fewer.

Keep in mind that regaining panache this way is based on the creature's total character levels rather than exclusively on the creature's swashbuckler levels. A barbarian 10/swashbuckler 3, for example, would need to reduce to 0 hp a foe possessing at least 6 Hit Dice to regain panache this way and not just stab down to 0 hp a comparatively nonthreatening 1 Hit Die creature!