freyar
Extradimensional Explorer
A question for those of you who've been working out monster conversions and such, since I can't figure it out from the bestiary previews:
Are all the skills given ranks in a base monster's stat block considered class skills for that monster? For example, in 3.5, if the monster in the SRD/MM has ranks in Hide, then unique customized or templated versions of that monster treat Hide as a class skill (I had to look in the rules for templates to find that, but it's there). But I can't tell if this holds from the Preview Bestiary monsters. In particular, some monster skills seem to get the +3 class skill bonus, and others don't. As an example, see the ghoul from Preview Bestiary II. Climb, Perception, and Stealth clearly have 2 ranks, ability modifiers, and a +3 bonus. But Acrobatics and Swim seem to have 2 ranks and the appropriate ability modifier. Where's the class skill bonus? How do we know which skills are class skills?
Are all the skills given ranks in a base monster's stat block considered class skills for that monster? For example, in 3.5, if the monster in the SRD/MM has ranks in Hide, then unique customized or templated versions of that monster treat Hide as a class skill (I had to look in the rules for templates to find that, but it's there). But I can't tell if this holds from the Preview Bestiary monsters. In particular, some monster skills seem to get the +3 class skill bonus, and others don't. As an example, see the ghoul from Preview Bestiary II. Climb, Perception, and Stealth clearly have 2 ranks, ability modifiers, and a +3 bonus. But Acrobatics and Swim seem to have 2 ranks and the appropriate ability modifier. Where's the class skill bonus? How do we know which skills are class skills?
