Making a tougher evil npc

[Craig1234]

I'm sure its in the books somewhere, but I'm not finding it, probably just looking in the wrong place though. I have a template for an Evil Cleric that is at CR3, I want to bump that up to CR4 or 5. Is there a template or such that I should be using? How do I do that?

Thanks

[CzarGarrett]

Advanced and Fiendish templates (somewhere in the back of the Bestiary), and additional class levels all come to mind as ways to pump up CR

[Master of the Dark Triad]

Why don't you just level him up more?

[Craig1234]

By level him up more, do you mean just level him up the way a PC cleric would? If so, with a CR3, would I presume that he is level 3 for the process? If all that's accurate, I could easily do it, just didn't know that was the case. Is it?

[Daethor]

Craig1234 wrote:

By level him up more, do you mean just level him up the way a PC cleric would? If so, with a CR3, would I presume that he is level 3 for the process? If all that's accurate, I could easily do it, just didn't know that was the case. Is it?

Yeah, just level him up as you would a PC. However, CR 3 doesn't necessarily mean he's level 3. The average NPC has a CR of level-1. However, just look in his stats and it should say something like "Cleric 3" or "Cleric 4" somewhere. That's his level.

[Craig1234]

thanks. the only clue I get on level is in the spells section where it says "caster level 4" which I presume means the guy is actually 4th level