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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 1244030" data-attributes="member: 141">I notice some refinements!Type is epic outsider (or epic construct).  Nice touch.Adding the MM hit points (plus 100) as a bonus.  It is much easier (and therefore better) to say the epic shnee has 14d8 + 112 + 275 hit points than the cumbersome (14d8x2)+328 way that the last few entries had.I like it that you don't list spells if they are redundant- since the shnee can fly and has true sight, no need to include fly and detect invisibility.And summoning 10 times as many creatures instead of an epic version- also good.  Otherwise you have to think there are epic dretches out there (for epic vrocks to summon), which just seems wrong.Two points- the template suggests a SR of base CR+20 for creatures who don't have Spell Resistance, or base SR+10 for creatures that do.  Did you notice that for the shnee 20+base CR is better than base SR+10?  That's kind of weird.  I would suggest, therefore, that the template give a SR of base CR+15 to creatures without spell resistance.  That pretty much guarantees that it is better for a creature to have its own SR increased by 10 rather than pretend it didn't have any SR at all.  I would also suggest that skills be increased only by +10.  It is easier to add 10 to a number than to add 15, and the skills seem plenty high enough already.p.s.  I also like the format of saying epic-good instead of epic and good.</blockquote>