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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7612801" data-attributes="member: 57383">Agreed. Magical Beast it is then.I'd go whole hog and honour the original's 150-yard long tentacles with a Reach of 750 ft. with tentacles.The beastie's body is "over 150′ long" so I fancy a hefty 150 ft. Space. Now the SRD Giant Squid has a body "more than 20 feet long" and has a 15 ft. Space so it could have a 120 ft. Space but that seems a bit small in proportion to the tentacle reach. Even 150 feet is one-fifth the tentacle reach, which is a ratio significantly higher than the standard giant cephalopods - the Giant Octopus and Giant Squid are both 2:1 (10 ft. vs. 20 ft. tentacle reach or 15 ft. vs. 30 ft.), while the Kraken is 3:1 (20 ft. vs. 60 ft.).Actually… I'd be game making the Space larger than 150 ft. if you prefer. A 3:1 ratio like the Kraken's would give a 250 ft. Space.Anyhow, for the sake of argument I'll proceed with a Space/Reach of 150 ft./50 ft. (750 ft. with tentacle).Now the Mystaran Kraken has a Space 7.5 times wider than a Kraken. That suggests its roughly the equivalent of three "size categories" bigger (or eight times wide) since the dimensions double with each size increase.Normal size advancement for three size categories is +24 Str and +12 Con, which would make it Str 58, Con 41 if applied to the Kraken's Str 34, Con 29.However, its tentacles 12.5 longer than a regular Kraken so it may be more like 3½ size-doublings, giving it Str 62, Con 42.Compared to a Giant Octopus, it's 15 times wider and has tentacles 32.5 longer, suggesting either four to five "dimension doublings" for somewhere between +32 Str, +16 Con and +40 Str, +20 Con to the Giant Octopus's Str 20, Con 13, resulting in Str 52-60, Con 29-33.A Giant Squid is inbetween, being 10 times wider with tentacles 25 times longer is something like 3¼ to 4½ "doublings". Let's call it  as between +26 Str, +13 Con and +36 Str, +18 Con to the Giant Squid's Str 26, Con 13, resulting in Str 52-62, Con 26-31.I'm inclined to be conservative and go for the lowest figures in that range and make it Str 52-53, Con 30-31.Dexterity 13 like a Gargantuan+ Giant Squid seems appropriate.Intelligence 5 has already been decided.For Charisma and Wisdom how about averaging a Kraken's 20 with a Giant Squid/Octopus's Wis 12, Cha 3 or 2?That'd be Wisdom 16, Charisma 11-12.Put together that's Str 52, Dex 13, Con 31, Int 5, Wis 16, Cha 12I think I'll start a Working Draft.</blockquote>

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