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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRGreathouse" data-source="post: 1982283" data-attributes="member: 474">OK, just checking.  (You should probably list this at the end of the monster entry as "Skills: Khaaglas has a +300 racial bonus to Jump checks.")I was also just checking here.  In the same way, you might want to mention this in the entry.  I was wondering how the Listen check was so low, but I guessed (correctly!) that it would be related to the Listen bonus here.Several years ago, before 3.5 came out, I wrote a "race generator" which tried to estimate CR.  It was actually pretty good, at least (a) compared to other estimators, like the Dragon CR Guesstimator, and (b) for melee-style monsters.  It rated about 85% of the monsters in the 3.0 MM to within a point of CR.Now I know this is old and ugly, and 3.5 has different balance assumptions than 3.0, but just for kicks I entered your monster.<a href="http://mwtools.thyle.net/race_gen.html" target="_blank">http://mwtools.thyle.net/race_gen.html</a>It suggests a CR of 16, although admittedly it's not counting in the +20 hit points Medium-szie constructs get in 3.5 (since oozes, not constructs, got the bonus in 3.0).  Higher damage would be the primary method of increasing the CR, as you said.(If you decide to fool around with the race gen, I'll warn you now that it doesn't rate DR as high as it should be rated, mainly as a result of 3.0 -> 3.5 changes.)</blockquote>