Monster Classes and Ability Points

[kevin video]

So my DM's just told me that I don't get an ability point every 4 HD because the character I've got is a monster race. That is you get one every 4 HD only with classes. Monster HD never give give you a bonus. Ever. Is this true? If it is, this proves even more how stupid WotC is. I know you get ability points with certain levels, but come on.

[kitep]

My off-the-hip answer is that your DM is 1/2 right.  When you start with a monster straight out of the MM, any increases would already be "built in".  Like a troll has 6HD, you don't have a floating "+1" you can add to any stat.

However, if you took levels in monster, you should get that stat increase.  When the troll hits 10HD of troll, it should get a +1 to a stat.  I think it even goes beyond that, in that it should actually get the increase at 8HD, ie another 2 levels of "troll".

[betrayor]

Kitep has it right.....
While you don't get extra abilities increase for a vanilla monster, if the monster happens to gain more racial hit dice then it will get increases when its hit dice are at multiples of four so a monster starting with two racial hit dice will get increases when it gets at 4,8,12,16 etc.
Actually it does not matter if it is racial hit dice or not,when the total hit dice reaches a mulltiple of four you get an increase.....

[kevin video]

Actually it does not matter if it is racial hit dice or not,when the total hit dice reaches a mulltiple of four you get an increase.....

That's what I thought.