Fastest Race?
- Thread starter Squnk
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I'm looking more for a track star not so much a character that can defy physics. Don't get me wrong that build is epic and very glad you shared it, I just might try and incorporate him later in my campaign.
Dandu
First Post
It doesn't defy physics; physics is simply an incomplete description of the world that has yet to catch up to Chuck E. Cheese.
TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
Not a chubby halfling. 
airwalkrr
Adventurer
Squnk, it might help if you offer a few parameters. Are you looking for a design for a single character who is a well-known messenger in your world or a group of characters who follow a similar path? Also, is this for a player character or an NPC in a game you run? If its a PC, then it would help to know what your DM is allowing and what sort of speed you are hoping to accomplish, whether it needs to be base land speed, or whether you need to include fly, swim, burrow, and climb as well. If its an NPC, any race or class known for speed could work, depending on what you have in mind. Scout or monk are simple classes. Plenty of races have 40 base speed and a few have 50. Although ultimately if it is an NPC you don't need to worry too much about the mechanics. Your messenger can move at the speed of plot. If you intend the players to face this messenger as an opponent and you want to feel more "legit" then what sort of target speed are you hoping for in tactical combat?
Sorry, but I find your original post a bit too open-ended to think an answer would help. I could offer any one of a dozen or so race/class/magic solutions, none of which might help depending on what you had in mind.
The simplest solution to me would be an awakened animal like an eagle. Fly speed of 80 is hard to beat for an intelligent messenger. If you wanted to make it magebred (from Eberron) that adds +10 to the speed too. Add a couple magic items to the creature...
edit: I see you are looking for a "track-star" and an "NPC messenger" to "aid a villain." I think I will stick with awakened magebred eagle though.
Sorry, but I find your original post a bit too open-ended to think an answer would help. I could offer any one of a dozen or so race/class/magic solutions, none of which might help depending on what you had in mind.
The simplest solution to me would be an awakened animal like an eagle. Fly speed of 80 is hard to beat for an intelligent messenger. If you wanted to make it magebred (from Eberron) that adds +10 to the speed too. Add a couple magic items to the creature...
edit: I see you are looking for a "track-star" and an "NPC messenger" to "aid a villain." I think I will stick with awakened magebred eagle though.
TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
I couldn't find it, but perhaps [MENTION=23396]Drowbane[/MENTION] could.
TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
It's not in the Magic Item Compendium.
There is a Runestaff of Time therein, but it doesn't have Celerity as a power.
[MENTION=6673441]Ravamunk[/MENTION], are you certain a Staff of Celerity was ever written up?
Arkhandus
First Post
Xephs (Expanded Psionics Handbook and the SRD) are quick, but only in short bursts. Since they're naturally psionic, though, they could take the Speed of Thought psionic feat at 1st-level or later for +10 ft. of speed as long as they maintain psionic focus and don't wear heavy armor or the like. Since it's an insight bonus, it stacks with stuff like Barbarian or Monk Fast Movement as well as the Xeph's Burst racial ability (which is a competence bonus). So a 1st-level Xeph Barbarian with Speed of Thought could move at 50-ft. speed normally, improved to 60 ft. speed for short periods of time (and the Xeph's Burst improves over time, peaking out at +30 ft. of speed at 9th-level onward).
