I am making a character sheet for my familiar and am a bit confused especially when it comes to skills.
using the centipede as an example.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/vermin/centipede/centiped e-house
please help me understand the points
First off I assume that the animal gets all of the benefits and penalties of their stats.
so a 17 dex gets +3 and a 2 con gets -4 correct?
when you lok at the Statistics it says
SKILLS
Climb +11
Perception +4
Stealth +19
Racial Modifiers
+4 perception
+8 stealth.
and also just to add to the confusion at the top where it names the creature it says init +3, senses: darkvision PERCEPTION +4
so does the animal have a total of +4, +8 or +12?
Is the total before or after the stat bassed modifications?
so is the stealth bonus 19 total, 19+8 or 19+8+3?
When it comes to climb is it 11 total? or 11-5?
also does the climb stat matter as the creature has a climb speed of 40 seeming to imply it climbs as effortlessly as any other creature walks.
lastly i like to seperate racials and benefits from skills. so how does THAT break down?
I appreciate the help.
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I am making a character sheet for my familiar and am a bit confused especially when it comes to skills.
using the centipede as an example.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/vermin/centipede/centiped e-houseplease help me understand the points
First off I assume that the animal gets all of the benefits and penalties of their stats.
so a 17 dex gets +3 and a 2 con gets -4 correct?
Correct.
when you lok at the Statistics it says
SKILLS
Climb +11
Perception +4
Stealth +19Racial Modifiers
+4 perception
+8 stealth.and also just to add to the confusion at the top where it names the creature it says init +3, senses: darkvision PERCEPTION +4
so does the animal have a total of +4, +8 or +12?
A centipede has a total perception of +4 including skills, racial bonuses, and ability modifers.
also does the climb stat matter as the creature has a climb speed of 40 seeming to imply it climbs as effortlessly as any other creature walks.
Yes, it matters. While they typically don't need to actually roll a climb check because they can always take 10. However note that to climb on a ceiling is a DC 30 check. The poor little centipede will only get 21 when it takes 10, so to climb on the ceiling the little guy needs to roll.
lastly i like to seperate racials and benefits from skills. so how does THAT break down?
The racial modifier is given in the stat block. Simply subtract the the racial modifier and ability modifer and any other bonuses (size etc.) what is left over is skill ranks (plus class skill bonus).
Can't really use this as an example as vermin have no class skills nor ranks. So in this case skill ranks is always zero.
I could not get the the stealth example to work, and the PRD does not have this already figured out which makes no sense to me. The witch should have been given the wizard's familiar or the work should have already been done.
I could not get the the stealth example to work, and the PRD does not have this already figured out which makes no sense to me. The witch should have been given the wizard's familiar or the work should have already been done.
Stealth = 0 ranks, +8 racial modifier, +8 size bonus, +3 DEX modifier = +19
I used the size modifier for AC instead of the one for stealth. oops.