Recent content by MaesterOlorin

The PHB refers to when you have failed a swimming check. I believe the implication is that you are not at your best, but that holding your breath is while active and swimming, while the DMG is referring to holding your breath with a little preparation, like if the room started filling with gas.

That is the kind of sophisticated reasoning you normally only get from a philologist. You really know your stuff and had the creativity to and understanding of how people think to give a real and probable insight. Hope you read this someday; Thank you

Ages later a voice in the wilderness said, "romanticization and fetishization, are the heart and lungs of most fantasy, written, games, or movies"

There is a feat, Beast strike, take it and you add your claw or slam damage to your unarmed strike damage, otherwise the savage spec. says you use either your natural attack damage or unarmed damage for a creature your size.

Forked from: Wisdom to AC ... twice? I would encourage simply thinking of the actually source of any bonus, if it comes from the character's will power in one class, divine inspiration another, and awareness in another, then yes while they all come from wisdom, they would and should stack...

Please delete, I am still learning the differences in this system from ones I have used in the past and did not mean to create a new thread. Sorry