Awaken

[brehobit]

Hi folks,
I''ve been trying to understand awakened animals better (using the Awaken spell). Most importantly, I've been trying to figure out skill points and feats for an awakened animal. A web search has turned up nothing...

Let's take an awakened wolf. Does it gain skill points for the 2 bonus hit dice handed it upon awakening? It becomes a magical beast, so does it gain dark vision and low-light vision? Does it change to having a BAB as a fighter?

Thanks,

 

[Will]

My read is that the bonus hit dice are animal hit dice. After that, it is a magical beast, so does gain dark vision and low-light vision.

Any further advancement is treated separately, like multiclassing. So BAB is still like a (regular hit dice +2) animal.

 

[kpdezend]

Let's take an awakened wolf. Does it gain skill points for the 2 bonus hit dice handed it upon awakening? It becomes a magical beast, so does it gain dark vision and low-light vision? Does it change to having a BAB as a fighter?

Thanks,

I would say: Yes, Yes, Yes, and Yes (as per Savage Species)

- Kent -

 

[Conaill]

I've just started a brand-new Awakened Animal thread to finally put these kinds of issues to rest. I would love it if you could all drop by there and continue the discussion there!

Here's my take: By default, the awakened animal would gain the *traits* of the magical beast type (i.e. darkvision etc), but retain the *features* of it's original type (HD size, BAB and save progression). That spelled out under the "Augmented Subtype", and also under Templates.

I decided to write out "Awakened Animal" as an actual template, just to force me to be as explicit as possible about these things. Dissenting opinions are welcome, of course...