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On page 73 you should add in the Nirvana Ki feat under the Sprial Shield benefit so it reads ".....You become immune to all spells...,"

Hey there. I just read over the entire document and I love it! Love the additions made with this update. My only comment is that on page 4 in the small box dealing with Pathfinder Unchained and Automatic Bonus Progression mentions information for epic scaling in Chapter 8. I did not find any information about Epic Automatic Bonus Progression in the chapter. If you could please add in the missing information that would be great.

Thanks again for bringing us epic play.

I am creating a creature with the Shadow-Traced template. This is the first time I am ever using this template and I need clarification on one of its abilities. My concern is with the Shadow Traces ability. Do these semi-real shadows have the ability to cast 3 spells in a single round with their own standard actions or do they share the base creature's allotment of spells per day and the base creature's standard action?

RPGNow has the PDFs.

More "In the Company of" monster books. Those are my favorite.

Can you do an Aasimar Investigator? I'd love to see that.

dot for interest

I'm looking at this book and I love the concept and material here. But the one thing I don't see is any clarification for the Monster Growth class ability in Chapter 3 to explain the process.

Thanks a ton, Liz!

We're giving out free PDFs for the first ten people that request a copy in this discussion!

I too would like a free copy.

Black Handed Mage wrote:

Hi. I have recently started a campaign with some people and we have created characters using several races from this book. We were all excited and intrigued to play as monsters. My question is what are your opinions on adjusting the CR for encounters for an entire party of stronger than average Pc group?

Hey Mage!

Thanks for the interest! I hope your campaign goes well. First off: most of these creations haven't been completely playtested...so you are actually an alpha/beta tester of some of these depending on which where selected.

Secondly...my intention was to covert these so that at any particular level they hopefully are equivalent to a 'normal' core book character at the same class level. With that being said, some monsters will obviously be over powered in terms of their specialty. Some might be better at a particular skill or have a unique power, but in terms of random situations they should not present any higher CR then a Human Fighter of similar level (hopefully)

But lets say they do - such as your pc's all selected Fire Giants as a race and they are about to fight Fire Elementals who's main ability is to do fire damage, then obviously the encounter level is going to be off.

In those cases I either let it fly as is and watch the PCs become giddy with excitement at their ingenious new powers and/or throw in something to even it up - like a fire elemental wizard that might throw a cone of cold at them.

At my particular table it seems that my players tend to play above the normal challenge rating by about +2 and so I normally boost my encounters with either adding in the Advanced template to monsters or adding in additional monsters to off set the encounter.

Hope this helps. =)

Again, let me know what they are playing and any feedback (good, bad, editing errors, inconsistencies and such) on the conversion

When I helped my players make the character sheets, I made them select monsters with racial levels of 10 or less. So that would exclude elementals, dragons, angels, and some of the more exotic monsters to play as. I have also ruled for them that in order to take levels in core and base classes, they must complete their racial classes before anything else. So far only one session and Pcs seemed pretty balanced even with ability score increases. Having another game tomorrow night with them so only time will tell.

Hi. I have recently started a campaign with some people and we have created characters using several races from this book. We were all excited and intrigued to play as monsters. My question is what are your opinions on adjusting the CR for encounters for an entire party of stronger than average Pc group?