How to read Bestiary skills (Racial modifiers)

[Grick]

I poked around a bit, but most of the discussion revolves around animal companions or skill ranks.

My problem is, I'm not sure how to read the Skills from the bestiary.

Two questions:

A) Are the Racial Modifiers included in the default skills? If not, do they modify or replace them?

B) Are conditional modifiers (in parenthesis) added to the number in front of them?

Example: Poison Frog (He's Tiny, with 12 dex and 1 HD if that matters)

"Skills: Acrobatics +5 (+1 jumping); Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics (+8 jumping)"

So, say he wants to tumble through a square. He rolls a d20 and adds what? 4, 5, or 9?

He wants to jump, he rolls a d20 and adds what, 1, 5, 6, 8, 13?

[FarmerBob]

Grick wrote:

I poked around a bit, but most of the discussion revolves around animal companions or skill ranks.

My problem is, I'm not sure how to read the Skills from the bestiary.

Two questions:

A) Are the Racial Modifiers included in the default skills? If not, do they modify or replace them?

B) Are conditional modifiers (in parenthesis) added to the number in front of them?

Example: Poison Frog (He's Tiny, with 12 dex and 1 HD if that matters)

"Skills: Acrobatics +5 (+1 jumping); Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics (+8 jumping)"

So, say he wants to tumble through a square. He rolls a d20 and adds what? 4, 5, or 9?

He wants to jump, he rolls a d20 and adds what, 1, 5, 6, 8, 13?

Corrected post:

The skills always include the racial modifiers:

+1 Dex
+4 Racial

+5 Acro

+1 Dex
+8 Racial
-8 For speed of 10'

+1 Jump

[Howie23]

Grick wrote:

My problem is, I'm not sure how to read the Skills from the bestiary.

All modifiers are included, although there can be errors at times; there is no error here. In this case, the calculation is:

Acrobatics +5 (+1 jumping) (stat calc: 0 ranks, +1 Dex, +4 racial (+8 jumping), -8 speed (jumping only))

Tumbling, he is +5 at half speed . Jumping, he is +1. It looks odd because the speed reduction is often forgotten; look in the Acrobatics skill description.

Acrobatics Exerpt:

. Creatures with a base land speed below 30 feet receive a –4 racial bonus on Acrobatics checks made to jump for every 10 feet of their speed below 30 feet.

[Grick]

Thanks folks. I'm trying to get some minimal stat blocks, and wanted to chop off the racial part, then had a momentary panic =)