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Re: Re: Re: Re: confused about flat-footed Okay, I see where you're coming from. It looks like you consider a "turn" to be roughly analogous to an "action". Not an unreasonable interpretation, I suppose. However, I can't agree that your interpretation is what was intended by the descriptions...

C'mon, Not-Sean. You're smarter than this. I'll take the bait, anyway... Picking out the one thing they have in common does not prove they're identical. For example: Your girlfriend has two legs. A chimpanzee has two legs. However, this is no ways proves that your girlfriend is identical to a...

Re: Re: confused about flat-footed I think you're misunderstanding the definition of flat-footed, good Doctor. Have a look at the definition posted by Hypersmurf. When your initiative comes up for the first time, you're no longer flat-footed, even if you're not able to act on your first...

Most drunken masters start out as monks. If this describes your associate, then dcollins is correct: this guy's monk skills are going to be severely penalized for his wearing hide armor. -AK

In response to my assertion that the effects of ER and the BoS&S are not identical: ER: doubles speed and doubles jumping distance, both as enhancement bonuses. BoS&S: doubles speed and adds +10 to jump checks, as unnamed and competence bonuses, respectively. So, to answer your question, the...

As a DM, I agree. As a player I would argue... "run in great leaps and bounds" is flavor text only. There is nothing in the spells description that requires land-based movement, or restricts the spells utility for flying subjects. The boots double your "normal" speed, but we have no definition...

Hmmm... you seem to have unilaterally ruled that Boots of S&S have no effect on Fly-ing subjects, Expeditious Retreat doesn't work on Fly-ing subjects, the "can't run while flying" clause in the spell description is not a restriction on double-moving, the supernatural portion of a monk's land...

Sooooo.... how far could a level 18 monk move while wearing Boots of S&S and under the effects of Fly and Expeditious Retreat, and descending at double-speed in a double-move? This is a fun topic. Heh heh heh. :D -AK

Yet another application for that marvelous, multi-purpose, most-underestimated, magically miniaturized massive mound of lumber... Quaal's feather token: Tree One of the best wonderous item bargains in the book. :D -AK

B delays his action until A's initiative comes up. A takes a swing at the orc, or goes full defense, or some other standard action, and takes a 5-foot step back, into B's square (assuming B allows this). B then takes a 5-foot step forward, into the square previously occupied by A, and makes his...

If he tries to activate it as a sorcerer, the caster level check DC is the scroll's caster level plus one. In this case, that makes the level check DC a 6. On a roll of 5 or better, he makes it. Caster level check is (d20+2) vs DC 6. Not exactly... If he rolls a UMD 15, he has failed his UMD...

The exception to that rule: A combatant who has taken the Combat Reflexes feat can make attacks of opportunity while flat-footed. -AK

I did not say that a shadow-dancer ignores all hide penalties. My disagreement was with your invention of epic-level circumstance penalties based on the size of the shadow. Already addressed by other posters. (Thanks, guys.) A blade of grass next to a candle can cast a shadow that fills a...

FYI: For creating spell completion or spell trigger items (scrolls, wands, etc.), the XP cost of the spell is figured into the market price, and the creator of the item provides the gold, XP, and any required components at the time of creation. Permanence is not an exception. The reason that...

Put spikes on your shield. Presto! Now it's a weapon. :) More useful alternative... there's a feat in Sword & Fist that lets you use a shield as a weapon. Shield Expertise? Something like that. If a player took QD and SE (or whatever it is), I'd allow quickdraw on the shield. Or invent...

Geezerjoe: The Hide in Plain Sight description explicitly states that the character must be within 10 feet of "some sort of shadow". There are no size requirements. It's magic, so forget about "real-world" limitations. A Shadow is incorporeal, so I wouldn't expect it to cast a shadow. I...

Just to add to the confusion... the armor bonus from mage armor does stack with the cover bonus from a tower shield. But the cover bonus from a tower sheild does not stack with the cover bonus from the shield spell. However, the cover bonus from the shield spell does stack with the armor bonus...

Yeah. But to get all the cleric's benefits, you're stuck with being the cleric! If the game designers didn't sweeten the deal for clerics, nobody would play one. :cool: (As usual, IMO.) -AK

From the SRD... It obviously allows you to transfer all of the enhancement bonus to AC, without losing the "defending" property. A defending weapon has to have at least a +1 enhancement bonus on it to qualify for the defending property. Therefore, obviously, the weapon is still enhanced, even...

Not relevant. That's another short-duration spell, so you'll be spending the first (or surprise) round getting Hasted, then Shielded. Hopefully, you're getting the haste effect from something besides a scroll, because a first-level caster would need to make a caster-level check, and you'd have...