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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 3009987" data-attributes="member: 31734">I really appreciate the legwork, guys.  I had started some of it, but I had been typing up and working on so many stat blocks, I got tired of it quickly.  I am just about finished (tomorrow prolly) with all the Summon Nature's Ally monsters plus all of them with Animal Growth effects (but not augmented summoning or anything else--as that should be easier to finagle on the fly).Yeah, this has been done before by others (yours truly included), but these are all in the new MMIV format, 4/page, with languages, pictures, and even descriptions (height/weight if available).  Er, anyone interested (zipped Word docs)?  Just e-mail me.  If you've received them before from me, I'll auto-resend to you.  Warning: I have a couple of houserules in this, including some error corrections.  I'm confident you could use them as is without breaking a game, but if you need them core, I don't think they would be too onerous to revise.  They would be extremely useful as a starting place even then.  I do explicitly mention the houserules in the docs.  Heck, you might even adopt them yourself.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Back to this topic, I think it would be best to go with the rule that rake attacks are secondary attacks and are treated as claws for purposes of feats.  Thus, -5 (or -2) on attack and 1/2 damage.  Having a majority of them be half damage is the only way that could be justified.  Also, I think that whoever originally typed up the stats put the attack bonus in there for a rake attack in a grapple, because that is the default method to make a rake attack, and then forgot that secondary attacks get -5 even if they're the only attacks made that round.  The rule that rakes don't get -4 in a grapple probably caused the brain fart.Anyone strongly disagree with this "correction"?</blockquote>

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