Beefing up creatures?

[Ferret]

How do you beef up a monster, apart from advancement. Most templates I've found are either to specific (Feral etc), or end up with a cr 12 monster with 1hd.

Are there any alternitives?

 

[Pants]

How do you beef up a monster, apart from advancement. Most templates I've found are either to specific (Feral etc), or end up with a cr 12 monster with 1hd.

Are there any alternitives?

Max hit points.
Use elite or alternate ability scores.

 

[the Jester]

Tactics. Check out the 'kobolds defending their lair' thread on the general board for some fantastic examples.

 

[the Jester]

Actually, one thing that really helps a template with a cr increase live up to it is a significant con increase.

I think templates ought to have their CR modifiers broken down kinda like when you advance a creature by class- if it's an 'associated' template it gets the full CR increase, otherwise a lesser one. (After all, a template that gives you combat bonuses helps a wizard much less than a fighter.)

 

[Clifford]

beefing critters

roll the creatures treasure befor the encounter and than have the creature use the magic items.

Cliff

 

[Krishnath]

Use class levels, an Ogremage with levels of Fighter/Blackguard is a lot meaner than one without.

 

[Ferret]

So no, HD enhancing templates or methods? Ok, thanks

 

[Nifft]

So no, HD enhancing templates or methods? Ok, thanks

PC Class levels could be thought of as "HD Enhancing".

Normal advancement rules are certainly "HD Enhanced"... and very little else.

There are a ton of Templates out there, but they tend to be orthogonal to HD -- they're meant to be nature-changing, not experience-changing.

-- N

 

[Ferret]

Yeah I meant other then classes etc.

 

[Golem2176]

You could try adding the Dire Humanoid that I found in the Creature Catalog. It's not there currently, either that or I just ovelooked it.