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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chunklets" data-source="post: 1638642" data-attributes="member: 20069">Thanks for the comments!  I was completely unaware of the Weapon Finess and Climb issues, so thank you for setting me straight on those.  I've worked most of your suggestions in - I will have to go back and check my notes to see how I screwed up the saving throws so badly.  I obviously misread something when I was creating the lockjaw.  On the subject of its ability scores, I still haven't made up my mind what exactly to do with those.  The CHA does seem rather high, and I don't recall exactly what I was thinking there (I didn't bring my original notes in today - just the 'finished product').  I left the wisdom score a bit low for a predator to reflect a critter that will stop in the middle of combat to eat.As far as the Lockjaw's type and HD are concerned, I agree that 12 HD is high for a small animal, but I was trying to create a monster that was tougher than the run-of-the-mill little lizard, at least partially to reflect its Underdark environment.  I was also, I freely confess, shooting for a particular CR, which I may or may not have hit dead-on.  <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=":)" />   I may lower the HD and give it some other bonuses to compensate (more natural armour, maybe).  I was actually thinking along the lines of a small dinosaur when I created the monster, and I think in 3.5 those have the animal type, so I'll probably leave that alone.Thanks once again for your very helpful suggestions!</blockquote>

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