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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cooper" data-source="post: 2201389" data-attributes="member: 24255">I assume you're talking about the neogi defiler on p. 95 and the neogi sorcerer on p. 96.  Compare their stat blocks with the adult neogi's on p. 90.  There, the Full Attack line specifies one attack bonus (+2 melee) and the number of claws (2 claws).  This is the standard way to do it.  Giving attack bonuses on either side of a slash ("+3/+3 melee" or ("+7/+7 melee") just confuses the issue, although now that I look again the neogi defiler's Full Attack says "2 claws" and the neogi sorcerer's Full Attack just says "claws."  Still, as written (using the standard stat block nomenclature), the neogi defiler's stat block says that it attacks with two claws, each of which makes two attacks at +3 melee.  (I think part of the problem is that the book has three authors and a two-man development team, any of whom might be responsible for a given stat block.  Everybody might be using slightly different notation to try to get across the same idea, and nobody went through and standardized everybody's work.)And nobody ever claimed that stat block work was easy!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>