Awaken Spell and ECL

[Taloras]

What would be the ECL of an Awakened Squirrel? (For those Foamy fans out there, the answer is yes)

I found the stats for a squirrel online, and im going from there for base stat mods....but I dunno beyond that.

And for you Foamy fans out there, what class should he be?

 

[Wrathamon]

I am guessing it would be ECL +0

but you can look at how Savage Species does it.

 

[Conaill]

Awakened weak animals are a problem when it comes to assigning ECL, because th end product after Awakening often comes out weaker than a human with the same number of HD (i.e. you'd wind up with a negative Level Adjustment if something like that existed), and/or very unbalanced (e.g. excellent for sneaking and scouting, but gets squashed like a bug in combat (think awakened housefly ))

For more info on how to apply the Awaken spell, and how to assign LA to such creatures in general, check out the link in my sig!