Help with Awakened Gorilla Monk

[ReeboKesh]

OTOH, there is a Size M monkey-like race in OA that has no LA...

Thanks Dannyalcatraz I found that in my OA book and I'm running with it.
I may make him a Shaman and go with that whole Rafiki from the Lion King schtick.
Later

 

[Stormrunner]

The Scent ability alone is worth +1 LA according to Savage Species.
Having lots of good ability score pluses is worth at least another +1.
On that note, I should point out that the "+2 Cha" for Awaken is NOT a normal ability adjustment in that it applies, not to a random roll, but to the animal's original Cha score, which is usually less than 10. So if the listing for the animal in the MM says "Cha 7" then your Awakened animal will have Charisma of (7+2=) 9, not "whatever I rolled +2". Likewise you only get 3d6 for an Int score, not 4d6 drop one. So in general an Awakened animal will have somewhat poorer Int and Cha scores than the average PC. Combined with the lousy skill points and so-so BAB of animal HD, this might be worth shaving 1 off the LA.

 

[satori01]

The Scent ability alone is worth +1 LA according to Savage Species.

Of course in long internet discussions on this and the WOTC message board, the author of Savage Species latter recanted the +1 LA for scent, and pegged it closer to .5, but since he did not want to create .5 LA items, it got it's +1 LA modifier.

It was quite apparent from those discussions, that Hypersmurf had a better sense of the impact of different abilities than the author.

Scent is usefull, but not LA +1 useful.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Of course in long internet discussions on this and the WOTC message board, the author of Savage Species latter recanted the +1 LA for scent, and pegged it closer to .5, but since he did not want to create .5 LA items, it got it's +1 LA modifier.

It was quite apparent from those discussions, that Hypersmurf had a better sense of the impact of different abilities than the author.

Scent is usefull, but not LA +1 useful.

Can anyone find a link to this? I'd be interested in checking this out.