Applying Levels/Advancing Monsters

[Lord Vangarel]

I'm a little confused as to the exact rules for this.

Lets take for example an ogre, it has 4HD, if I apply a class level what does it gain in terms of skills and feats?

Thanks.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

It has now 5 levels. Levels and Hit Dice are equal for that matter. So he'll have 2 Feats (1st, 3rd) and max Skill Rank 8.

 

[Grazzt]

I'm a little confused as to the exact rules for this.

Lets take for example an ogre, it has 4HD, if I apply a class level what does it gain in terms of skills and feats?

Thanks.

Applying class levels works just like multi-classing PCs. Just think of the ogre's HD as "ogre levels".

In terms of skills and feats, it gains skill points for whatever class level you add (for example, adding a level of fighter nets it 2 + Int mod in skill points). It does NOT gain the x4 bonus to skill points that 1st level characters get because it is NOT a 1st-level character (remember the ogre levels count as levels).

It doesnt gain any additional feats (like Kae Yoss pointed out above), as its simply a 5th-level character (4 ogre levels plus 1 class level). Adding another class level would make it a 6th-level character overall and it would gain one additional feat.

It also (obviously) gains the class benefits of adding a class level (which in the case of fighter would grant it a fighter bonus feat).