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<blockquote data-quote="moritheil" data-source="post: 3471926" data-attributes="member: 30610">First off, nearly all by-the-book monsters have terrible feat selection.&nbsp; I understand that animals might have alertness because it's thematic, but when dragons, outsiders and other such creatures could be taking ability focus or quicken spell-like ability instead, you really have to wonder what the writers were thinking.I would personally add that adding 4 sorcerer levels to giants or outsiders in general (not cleric levels) is enormously helpful.&nbsp; While energy resistance might help a troll live longer, wraithstrike + power attack will end a fight much faster.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp; The improvement to will saves doesn't hurt, either!&nbsp; Furthermore, the racial HD are greater than the class HD, so 4 sorcerer levels only costs 2 CR (since the sorcerer class does not stack with anything that a giant normally has, ogre mages aside.)Of course, you will generally need to use an elite stat block favoring cha to make this work, but it is assumed that any monster advanced by PC levels has elite stats . . .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moritheil, post: 3471926, member: 30610"] First off, nearly all by-the-book monsters have terrible feat selection. I understand that animals might have alertness because it's thematic, but when dragons, outsiders and other such creatures could be taking ability focus or quicken spell-like ability instead, you really have to wonder what the writers were thinking. I would personally add that adding 4 sorcerer levels to giants or outsiders in general (not cleric levels) is enormously helpful. While energy resistance might help a troll live longer, wraithstrike + power attack will end a fight much faster. :p The improvement to will saves doesn't hurt, either! Furthermore, the racial HD are greater than the class HD, so 4 sorcerer levels only costs 2 CR (since the sorcerer class does not stack with anything that a giant normally has, ogre mages aside.) Of course, you will generally need to use an elite stat block favoring cha to make this work, but it is assumed that any monster advanced by PC levels has elite stats . . . [/QUOTE]

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