Recent content by underfoot

This would be the balanced way to get the physical properties of the weapons. Also replace the Implement keyword with Weapon so appropriate feats/modifiers are applied. Didn't the 4E original Monk concept have both Weapon and Implement powers, and they converted them all to Implements because...

Under Falling / Catching Yourself (pg. 284,285 in PHB) it states that if you make the saving throw the forced movement ends.

No, OAs interrupt the action that triggered it. It is not an immediate interrupt. You can have 1 OA per turn and 1 Immediate Action (interupt (combat challenge) or reaction (readied action)) per round.

Polearm Gamle only gives the OA when a non-adjecent opponent enters a square adject to you. So the CS advantage would do the opposite (keeps them at a distance) rather than preventing them from moving away.

Would you apply Combat Superiority (+wis to attack roll and stopping movement) to attacks made by Combat Challenge? RAW would say not, because Combat Challenge is an immediate action and not an OA. I think the spirit of Combat Superiority would let you. Or would being able to stop movement...

Fire and Acid are not required to kill a troll anymore. You can perform a coupe de grace against a troll once you've beaten it helpless. The troll will survive the damage (taking more nonlethal damage and keeping it unconcious) but then has to make a saving throw vs. dying (DC 10+damage dealt)...

Yup, Pyrex already pointed that out and I responded to it.

Thats why a lot of Savage Species is more of a "how to" with samples for the DM to adjust as he sees fit than a perfect example. In the case of air elementals it does look front loaded. I would simply progress the fly speed from 30' racial to adding 10' every even level up to 100'. Then I...

I wish I had Savage Species in front of me. But I would assume that if you take Monster Level approach (which I believe includes the LA in the number of levels in the progression), then you would not receive a LA.

That's cool, I haven't looked at Savage Species in long time (great book). As a house rule I would be okay with a player taking a class level in between racials. I don't see anything over powered by allowing it, especially considering that they have to get the monster approved by the DM to...

I was under the impression from Savage Species that you didn't have to gain all of the Monster Levels before you could take class levels. For Example, The Minotaur was broken down into a 8 monster levels (I don't have the book in front of me but I believe the number of levels equals the ECL of...

I would check with your DM before building a character around a mount. Ask him what the ratio of dungeon crawling to outdoors will be. If it's not 75% outdoors to 25% dungeon then you probably will want to avoid it. Even with a Medium mount it's hard to take advantage of Ride-by-Attack...

Not really. According to your diagram a Medium biped could attack up to 10' off the ground and the Huge biped 30'. The PHB Jump skill say a Medium biped has a 8' vertical reach and a Huge biped 32'. They are pretty close, probably just rounded off :)

I don't have the page number but according to http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/jump.htm: I did miss this line: We rule --and this could be a house rule-- that you can elect to end your movement during the jump (like a flying creature can elect to no longer fly and free fall 60', and then...

Because at the end of your turn if you are in the air and unable to hover or maintain flight (if you have a minimum flight speed), you immediately fall 60' at the end of the round, then 600' every round there after. There is a section in the DMG about vertical reach (see Jump skill). We play...