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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5016256" data-attributes="member: 57383">Well it's not so much I feel it needs super-high Listen & Spot so much as I think they ought to have the same sensory skill and Knowledge (religion) bonuses as the other mummies, which have +20 to +23 in those skills.I'd be fine keeping them Int 12, but feel we need to cut down some of the other skills. I wouldn't feel bad about cutting its Diplomacy down, and just giving it a few ranks in Survival so it isn't much better at tracking than an SRD dire wolf.Hmm, maybe rather than specializing in Hiding like a hippo or croc, the Jackal-headed sneaks up silently in the darkness. They could have a black skin which gives them a racial bonus to Hide in darkness.So, putting Int back to 12 for 95 spell points.Provisionally saying racial bonuses of +2 on Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Search, Sense Motive and Spot checks, a +4 on Jump checks, together with +4 on Survival checks to track by scent and +8 on Hide checks when in darkness.Divide ranks as follows:Diplomacy 5, Hide 7, Jump 4, Knowledge (religion) 17, Listen 17, Move Silently 9, Sense Motive 16, Spot 17, Survival 3.That works out to:Skills: Diplomacy +10, Hide +7* (+13 in darkness), Jump +15, Knowledge (religion) +20, Listen +22, Move Silently +13, Sense Motive +21, Spot  +22, Survival +6* (+10 track by scent) That gives it four key "composite mummy skills" (shown in gold) at equivalent levels to the other mummies, an effective +13 in stealth and Diplomacy and Stealth skills which are a bit weak for CR-appropriate challenges, but perfectly adequate for run of the mill tasks.</blockquote>

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