I have a question about the gnoll portion of the book, are the CR's on the gnolls with cleric levels and the one with Bouda levels correct?
Looking at the bestiary on advancing monsters, gnolls fill a combat roll, so adding those caster levels would be different for the first level. (gnolls being cr1)
So the first level of cleric or Bouda would leave the gnoll at Cr1, the next would actually change the Cr and so on, leaving the two clerics at Cr 4 and Cr 11 respectively and the Bouda would be Cr 12.
Or am I doing something wrong?
If I am wrong about the Cr, then why are the ghouls (also Cr 1's that fill a combat roll) following the rules that I stated above with their caster variations? It also seems that most of the other entries follow the monster advancement correctly as well, another example is the boggard portion of the book.
A final question (back to the gnolls again), the gnoll bruiser has one level in fighter one and level in rogue, listed as a Cr 3. Does the addition of that fighter level, a "combat" class, make the rogue level, a "skill" class add one to the Cr instead of 1/2 like I think it should?