Increasing a CR 21 critter


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Hi all,

Hypothetically speaking, I'm thinking of replacing Demogorgon in the Savage Tide with Kezef the Chaos Hound.

Kezef is CR 21 - what can I do to increase him to CR 24?


Pimp him out with some spinning hubcaps, add a flame-job, and chrome everything.

But seriously, there's a whole section on this in the new Abyss book. Or for a less precise version, you could do that advancing monsters scheme from the back of the MM.

You could also just eyeball it for speed. Give him +3 to all his checks, add some bonus tweak to his major abilities, and give him a clump more HP.


Since he's an outsider, you can simply follow the advancement guidelines for outsiders:

- Add 6 Hit Dice
- Adjust its BAB and all attacks by +6
- Increase its saves by +3
- Add 2 feats (both of which can be epic feats)
- Add 60 skill ranks (I'd recommend just adding 6 ranks to 10 skills for simplicity)
- Increase one of its ability scores by +1 (I'd recommend Con)
- Incrase the save DCs of all its (non-spell-like) special abilities by 3

Alternatively, you could increase his size at a "cost" of 1 CR, and then raise by 4 Hit Dice to achieve the desired CR.

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