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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 734707" data-attributes="member: 5171">Hey all, sorry if this gets asked all the time.If I want to challenge a higher-level party, I need to get monsters with more difficult save DCs.  So, in that vein, a few questions:Note: I taking as a given that most monster abilities are based with DCs as (10+1/2HD+Con/Cha) for the most part, Con for physical effects, Cha for mental effects.1) If I advance the hit dice of a creature, do I advance the save DC as well?  Does the Basilisk Queen, who has double the hit dice of a normal basilisk, have a more powerful gaze?  My instinct is to say Yes.2) If I give a creature class levels, do those hit dice apply toward upping the save DC?  For example, if a medusa takes levels in rogue, does her gaze attack get more powerful?  My instinct is to say No.3) Anyone have feats from Savage Species or other accepted places that increase save DCs?  If not, my impulse is to make a feat that parallels Spell Focus and lets the creature bump up the DC on one of its abilities bt +2.Thanks!-Tacky</blockquote>