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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eldorian" data-source="post: 707165" data-attributes="member: 10504">UKHey to you too. =PI agree. you should take each odd stat and subtract 11, and each even and subtract 10, and then divide by whatever, only keep track of full bonuses.  The odd stats, while required for feats, have almost no effect otherwise, certainly not enought to majorly effect CR.I'm not so sure on if fighters benefit more.  Maybe the problem is there are not enough good magic items for spell casters.  Maybe I need to type out my supposed changes to magic item creation, huh? =DI thought that before reading what you had changed how stats worked, into .1 increments.Yah, see above.I dunno, all stats but Con as nil suggest the same value as a 0, which is a penalty.In savage species i think they let monsters countinue to gain HD instead of classes.Definatly.  Since the medusa only gets poison on one attack, and it is an extra attack, it needs some sort of special case.  Perhaps add a half of the bonus again for each attack the creature can make that has that poison on it.  Also, initial damage should be rated higher than secondary.  3d6 con intial and 1d6 secondary is much tougher than 1d6 initial and 3d6 secondary.  First one means you might die, second means get a neutralize poison or you might die.A bodak's gaze is a 9th level spell?  Isn't finger of death 7th level and slay living 5th?  It's much closer to 7th (slay living is touch).  Also, do you think 0.6 is enough for a creature that had the supernatural power to cause one person to turn to stone as a standard action? basically has flesh to stone as an unlimited use, DC 10 +1/2HD +Cha, spell-like power usuable at will?  Perhaps that should be twice 0.6 (1.2), and gaze attacks should be three times, or 1.8.Well, in savage species they have rules for monsters gaining levels of monster classes, so you could start the medusa as a first level PC with 1hd of monsterous humanoid.  Also, a ECL 12 medusa, if it started with no character wealth at ECL 7, would have wealth of 12 - wealth of 7, or about 88k- 19k for a PC, 69k gold, which is more than a level 11 character.  I think it's easier to assume that the character has character wealth at all levels, using the advancement ideas from savage species that alow you to play monsters at first level.Ah good, wish I had known that, was alot of work trying to figure out where they belonged =PSee, once again, if the magic items equally favored both spell caster and warrior, then we'd not have this problem.  Note to self, finish alternate item rules.Eldorian Antar</blockquote>

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