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Dunno how careful folks are about spoilers around here, but big player spoilers for Carrion Crown 2 (Trial of the Beast) ahead.

I'm getting ready to run this module and I'm a little unsure about how to play Lazne, the elder of Morast who drove the Shambling Man into the swamp thinking it was the Beast, and later appears as a witness for the prosecution at the trial. Specifically, I'm wondering why, when confronted with the sight of the real Beast at the trial, Lazne doesn't recognize that it is not the creature his posse wounded and chased into the bog, or that it does not have to appropriate shoulder wound from the caiman bite. Is the Shambling Man skin intended to actually be a convincing likeness of the Beast? Or is Lazne keeping his doubts to himself? I suppose it's all up to me to decide, but I am curious whether anyone else came up with a solution here.

I see now. Thanks very much!

This is pretty basic, but I am just getting into Pathfinder. The Bestiary lists a "Base Atk" value for each monster. Is that value, unmodified, the same as the monster's Attack Bonus? The Core Rulebook says a creature's attack bonus is equal to its Base Attack Bonus + Strength Modifier + Size Modifier, so I would think "Base Atk" in the Bestiary is only the first variable in that equation. But the AC values in the Bestiary already incorporate Dex and Size variables, so I'm not sure why the Base Atk values wouldn't be similarly complete.

Just for example, the Phase Spider's Base Atk is listed as 6, but it is a Large creature with a Strength of 20. Is its Attack Bonus:

6 (Base Atk only)

or

6 (Base Atk) + 5 (Strength bonus) -1 (Size modifier) = 10?

Thanks to anyone who can help a newbie out.