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In the third Skull & Shackles book, Tempest Rising, page 41 has a creature named Shimerae. Shimerae is, according to her stat block, an "advanced dusk kamadan" and is CR 6. The problem here is that dusk kamadans are a variant of the standard kamadan, and already have the advanced simple template applied (and are CR 5).
Shimerae's stat block suggests the advanced simple template is supposed to be added a second time, which WOULD justify the CR of 6. Unfortunately, her stats don't even have the first advanced simple template added correctly. Specifically, her Strength score should have 1 point added to it, and her Constitution score should have 2 points added to it.
So, to fix Shimerae, either the following two things would need to happen:
1) Reduce CR to 5 and lower XP reward, delete "advanced" from the description below XP, and increase Strength and Constitution as mentioned above (and make any changes associated with the higher Con modifier).
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2) Change Strength and Constitution as mentioned above, AND THEN add +4 again to all 6 ability scores, increasing all relevant stats associated with them.
I have a feeling doing #2 would make a creature more powerful than the designers intended.
Shimerae has 2 HD more than a standard Kamadan. No amount of templates that I've seen are able to increase a creature's HD. This would make Shimerae its own monster. Quite strange, indeed.
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Shimerae has 2 HD more than a standard Kamadan. No amount of templates that I've seen are able to increase a creature's HD. This would make Shimerae its own monster. Quite strange, indeed.
Oh good catch! That actually changes my previous post a bit. While it's true that no simple template inherently adds HD, it seems this creature was "advanced" by increasing its HD, which explains the higher CR.
This is actually a pretty common method of increasing a monster's power that you see in adventures like this, and the back of each Bestiary has a section about how to advance a creature by adding HD. Fun fact: if one more HD had been added, it would make the creature eligible to be a Huge-size creature instead.
So in the end, the only thing that needs changing is to increase Strength by +1, and Constitution by +2 (which will effect hp, Fortitude saves, breath weapon save DC, and poison save DC).