Savage Species Progession question (ability points) [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Ogg

05-16-07, 11:43 AM
We're looking at building progressive monsters in a future game I'm in using Savage Species. It's pretty clear on feats since it's listed in the monster description. For example a troll has Feat listed for 1,3 & 6 hit dice just like player characters but so they get an ability point at 4th & 8th hit dice? I've seen people post both ways in other sources I've found. Some say it's factored in, others say since the Feat's are listed the ability points make sense to be included as well.

Was there ever any clarification?

Also trolls have Scent 10' listed twice. Does anyone know if the one at 4th level is supposed to be something like Scent 15' or is it just supposed to be deleted? Was there ever any official clarification on that one either?
Squall255

05-16-07, 01:00 PM
I'm pretty sure that the ability boosts are factored in, they would be the abilities with an odd modifyer. either that, or they don't exist. Otherwise, it would be impossible to know for sure what their racial modifyers are to stats.

and to my knowledge, their ratial scent does not improve, so that would be a typo. Wouldn't be the first one they made, so that's what I'd write it off as. :P