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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lukelightning" data-source="post: 2984284" data-attributes="member: 9745">Those are all valid concerns.  Ravens and rabbits would both be "0-level" creatures but the base package of the animal class should account for this.  They are actually quite similar; one has a flight speed and the other a bonus to land speed and different skill selections.In this system a carrion crawler would be a level whatever creature (let's say 4), with extra attack and poison abilities.  A beholder would be a level 12 or something that would have spent all its class ability options on supernatural abilities in the form of eye rays (along with the "multi casting" ability that lets it shoot all those eye rays in the same round).  This may, of course, mean existing monsters need to be reconfigured, but they are probably going to do this anyways (e.g. the recent ogre mage article on the WotC site).  This system certainly breaks down when you want a low-HD creature with many abilities.The types should have some automatic class abilities, such as natural armor. I could see the "dragon" class as getting a +3 natural armor that increases by +1 for every level automatically.  Stats would do the same; the dragon class would get automatic increases to strength, for example, based on level. This could be supplemented by choosing certain class abilities (strength bonus ability,etc.)Abilities could automatically increase in power such as a 1d6 breath weapon that gets more powerful and larger as levels increase, or even an "SLA" ability that automatically gets more options in higher levels, similar to a warlock's invocations (so at level one you get 'charm person' 1/day, then at level 3 you get charm person and chill touch each 2/day).  A "speed bonus" ability might be +10' with an automatic +10 per three levels.Abilities could also stack so that if you choose the next rank of an ability it is more powerful than if the ability just progressed naturally.  So the DR 5/magic ability automatically increases to 10/magic at a certain level...but if you choose the DR option again it changes to DR 10/silver (or any other type). Choose the abilitiy again and you get DR 5/- or 10/adamantite.</blockquote>

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