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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bad Paper" data-source="post: 3094370" data-attributes="member: 24674">uh.  yeah, 11 or thereabouts.I disagree with increasing the grapple check so drastically.  This thing is weak and lacks things with which to grapple: tentacles, jaws, hands.Giving half damage to grappled victims makes sense for something smaller like a cloaker, but if this thing is huge, I cannot see how me hacking it over here gives damage to someone fifteen feet away.  I would drop or alter this mechanic.Your weapon-type adjustments are bizarre.  I see no logic for immunity to bludgeoning.  Think about the gibbering mouther's DR 5/bludgeoning, and compare it to the zombie's DR 5/slashing.  Is this thing more like a mass of GM flesh or a mass of Z stringy muscle?  I guess the piercing thing is OK.  Maybe make it something cool like DR 5/magic, wood, and bludgeoning.  Who's going to beat it with a stick?I would drop the racial grapple modifier (for that is what that +10 is) and rethink the weapon-type stuff.  Since you changed its attack mode to essentially mimic a swarm, maybe read up on the various swarms' damage reduction/weapon-type modifiers.If you did these things, then its CR drops to 9 or 10.  Maybe keep the racial grapple modifier (as an offset to the free-AoO "swarm" mechanic) at +4 (bonus feat, anyone?).  I would shoot to make this thing a CR10.</blockquote>