Bestiary: Astral Deva Skils (Escape Artist?)

[Arazyr]

So, I'm putting together a character sheet for the Astral Deva, and I can't figure out where it gets the bonus to Escape Artist. Best I can tell, it doesn't have any skill ranks or bonus class skills left for it, and I don't see any feats, racial modifiers, etc. to account for it.

Have I missed something?

[delabarre]

Arazyr wrote:

So, I'm putting together a character sheet for the Astral Deva, and I can't figure out where it gets the bonus to Escape Artist. Best I can tell, it doesn't have any skill ranks or bonus class skills left for it, and I don't see any feats, racial modifiers, etc. to account for it.

Have I missed something?

I would assume that the creature gains a +5 racial bonus; it also appears to have +4 bonuses to Fly, Perception, and Sense Motive.

[Arazyr]

delabarre wrote:

I would assume that the creature gains a +5 racial bonus; it also appears to have +4 bonuses to Fly, Perception, and Sense Motive.

Those come from having a fly speed with good maneuverability and the Alertness feat (and more than 10 ranks in Perception and Sense Motive). Monster listings usually say if they have a racial bonus. (I did check that. 8^)

[Sean K Reynolds]

I'm not sure why it has the EA skill. It had it in 3.5, it had it in an early writeup for the Bestiary, but my most recent stat block spreadsheet for it used for the Bestiary doesn't have the EA skill listed at all. Perhaps we manually checked the skill bonuses in the spreadsheet, and manually updated the in-layout version's numbers, and missed that EA wasn't in the spreadsheet any more?

[Arazyr]

Sean,

Thanks for the response. Sounds like errata to me, then...