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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 2502469" data-attributes="member: 1264">Hi guys!Yes, Awakened should have been a template! WotC chickened out with Savage Species, deciding to publish an Anthropomorphic template instead, because they considered it a more playable choice (not having hands can be tricky...)Luckily, a bunch of us already went through most of this earlier! In fact, you can find the Awakened template, plus a bunch of other rules clarifications on the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=82688" target="_blank">Awakened Animal thread</a>!Here's some answers to your questions (you can find further justifications in the thread above):- CR increases by +1 (fairly arbitrary decision, but seems to work reasonably well)- extra HD from Awakenenig does not affect size (judgement call - similar to justification for Animal Companions, and it simplifies things a lot)- Awakened animal keeps the Features of its original animal type, i.e. HD size, BAB and save progression (see Augmented subtype)- It does gain the Traits of its new Magical Beast type, i.e. Darkvision - Retroactive skill points: I don't think so, skill points never work retroactively</blockquote>