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Skills: 11

Feats: 3

A botswanna golgalarka is 5 feet long and weighs x pounds. (Wikipedia lists komodo dragons as 150 pounds at 6 feet length).

A botswanna golgalarka speaks/understands x?
 

Umm, maybe 100-120lb?

Celestial and Common?

Hide 6, Move Silently 5

Alertness, Ability Focus (breath weapon), Dodge or Iron Will
 

Komodo dragon weight sounds appropriate.

How about Improved Initiative, Track, Weapon Focus (bite)?
4 ranks in Listen and Spot, 3 in Survival?

Speaks no languages, but understands Common, Celestial and Infernal?

Edit: To justify my skills selection, I think that the B-G has no need for stealth whatsoever. It can hunt small mammals by killing everything in a 70 foot cone and picking up the carcasses. I could see an argument for them using stealth to evade larger predators capable of resisting the breath weapon, however.
 

I blended your two suggestions. Updated.

Wanna give them scent for better tracking prey?

Organization: Solitary?

Challenge Rating: 5-6?

Advancement: 9-18 HD (Medium); 19-27 HD (Large)?

Should we give them resistance to sonic to go along with their breath weapon theme?
 

Scent would be reasonable. I think we're ok with CR 6, advancement looks fine. Maybe resistance 5 sonic to solidify the CR a little. Solitary is fine.
 


Looks done to me. I like this guy!

Edit: Maybe not... I realized something. This is a CR 6. There are... three? core classes with a favored reflex save. Everyone else is not so lucky. They get a +2 from their class, plus another 2 from Dex and 2 from a cloak... if they're lucky. And they will still fail their saves versus the breath weapon most of the time.

What I'm saying is... I think we shouldn't give them Ability Focus as a default feat. Seems a little mean.
 
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