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<blockquote data-quote="John Cooper" data-source="post: 2609356" data-attributes="member: 24255"><p><strong>Kelleris</strong> - Hmmm, it looks like you're right about King Kaius' natural armor bonus. I pulled out my 3.0 <em>DMG</em> and compared its wording of the <em>amulet of natural armor</em> to the 3.5 <em>DMG</em> version, and it does now specify that it's an "enhancement bonus to natural armor" where before it was just a sudden natural armor bonus. Very subtle, that. Okay, I'll go back and give King Kaius his enhanced natural armor back. (Contrary to what some might think, my goal here isn't to "show up the publisher," it's to get accurate stat blocks to those who have purchased the book in question. If I occasionally need help from those who read my reviews, the end result's still the same - a better set of stat blocks. I really do appreciate those who "tweak" my own "tweakings" to get them right!)</p><p></p><p>As for the bonus languages, you're right, we have no way of knowing whether Intelligence was improved during an increase in levels, or if the character has the same Intelligence score that he started out with. I always throw in the "wrong number of bonus languages" when I'm compiling a list of stat block errors to be thorough, but depending on the circumstances it might not be a problem. Maybe I should just ignore such things in the future?</p><p></p><p>Finally, what book are you having published in a couple of months?</p><p></p><p><strong>mtgrogan</strong> - No, I'm not bucking for an editor position at Wizards of the Coast. I already have a full-time job that I enjoy. Writing reviews is a pleasurable hobby, and while going through stat blocks is part of that process for me, I'd probably quickly go insane if I had to do that 8 hours a day, five days a week! (I actually did something very similar, on a freelance basis, spending nearly every spare hour of free time I had in the whole month of July working on the stats of a soon-to-be-published, 500-page monster book. While I'm glad I did it, I don't think I'll ever want to do that sort of thing again - at least, not that big of a book!)</p><p></p><p><strong>Dacileva</strong> - Good point. Note I wasn't complaining about the naming scheme, just mentioning that I had noticed it. It does make perfect sense, as you point out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Cooper, post: 2609356, member: 24255"] [b]Kelleris[/b] - Hmmm, it looks like you're right about King Kaius' natural armor bonus. I pulled out my 3.0 [i]DMG[/i] and compared its wording of the [i]amulet of natural armor[/i] to the 3.5 [i]DMG[/i] version, and it does now specify that it's an "enhancement bonus to natural armor" where before it was just a sudden natural armor bonus. Very subtle, that. Okay, I'll go back and give King Kaius his enhanced natural armor back. (Contrary to what some might think, my goal here isn't to "show up the publisher," it's to get accurate stat blocks to those who have purchased the book in question. If I occasionally need help from those who read my reviews, the end result's still the same - a better set of stat blocks. I really do appreciate those who "tweak" my own "tweakings" to get them right!) As for the bonus languages, you're right, we have no way of knowing whether Intelligence was improved during an increase in levels, or if the character has the same Intelligence score that he started out with. I always throw in the "wrong number of bonus languages" when I'm compiling a list of stat block errors to be thorough, but depending on the circumstances it might not be a problem. Maybe I should just ignore such things in the future? Finally, what book are you having published in a couple of months? [b]mtgrogan[/b] - No, I'm not bucking for an editor position at Wizards of the Coast. I already have a full-time job that I enjoy. Writing reviews is a pleasurable hobby, and while going through stat blocks is part of that process for me, I'd probably quickly go insane if I had to do that 8 hours a day, five days a week! (I actually did something very similar, on a freelance basis, spending nearly every spare hour of free time I had in the whole month of July working on the stats of a soon-to-be-published, 500-page monster book. While I'm glad I did it, I don't think I'll ever want to do that sort of thing again - at least, not that big of a book!) [b]Dacileva[/b] - Good point. Note I wasn't complaining about the naming scheme, just mentioning that I had noticed it. It does make perfect sense, as you point out. [/QUOTE]
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