This category includes fairly large, carnivorous lizards from 3 to 5 feet long.
Monitor lizards can be aggressive, using their powerful jaws to tear at prey or enemies.
Skills: A monitor
lizard has a +8 racial bonus on any
Swim check to
perform some special action or avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on a
Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. It can use the
run action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line. Monitor lizards have a +4 racial bonus on
Hide and
Move Silently checks. *In forested or overgrown areas, the
Hide bonus improves to +8.