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Sometimes things depend on who's writing. I believe Michael and Philip switch off writing duties on a week by week basis. I enjoy both writers work but I think they approach it in different ways. I think Philip says, "What do I want to write today?" I think Michael says, "What do I want to...

Getting Organized Campaign Planner Deluxe Written and designed by Philip J. Reed Advice, feedback, and suggestions by Mark Gedak, Cynthia Hahn, Dennis O'Brien, and Matt Ramsey. Product review and proofreading by Mark Gedak and the users of www.philipjreed.com. The Campaign Planner Deluxe is a...

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Thanks Demiurge. This is what I thought. But I've been told repeatedly on the rules forum that I'm wrong so I wanted to come check out the more hard-core monster area for a second opinion. Incidentally, their is still much errata needed on this topic in the MM. (I was going through the...

Hi everyone, When do monsters gain feats? I know they get 1 + HD/3 feats but "when" do they get them. Let's say I make a 2 HD creature (1 +2/3 = 1 feat) do I check his prequisites against his 2 HD statistics? or what his 1 HD statistics would have been.

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I understand that. I meant more of the deadend feats that seem to be liberal scattered through higher HD monsters. It just seems strange to harmonize the rules but...not quite.

Which is not necessarily clear. When I look at other monster's higher level than 2HD like an Areana they "seem" to spread their feats out over HD as though they picked on up at 1 HD, then 3 HD, and so on. (So many powerful monsters still have lower prerequisite feats instead of all at the upper...

I guess for a designing standpoint I'm looking at the rules to understand how things are done and there is a lot of inconsistencies and issues even after you look at official errata. The changes to the Monster Manual (v3.5) kind of bugged me that everything was harmonized to be parallel with...

So you are saying a MM, 2HD porpoise has 1 feat and it gets it at 2 HD because it was created that way. So I can create a 33HD outsider with 12 epic feats because I created it at 33 HD and its allowed to have epic feats once its past 20 HD so I'll just choose 12 epic feats then.

Where does it state that porpoises are "born" at two HD? When I look at monster classes it seems to me that all monsters are born at 1 HD but become valuable as monsters at a later HD and the MM shows a typical adult.

I just I'm taking it too intuitively. See I look at the idea that monsters have been changed to the 1 + HD/3 pattern so they conform with characters. It seemed to me that the feats were linked to HD just like characters. So monsters should gain a feat at 1,3,6,9,12,15,... Or what prevents an...

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Thank you for joining this discussion. I agreed with you totally. The creatures I'm talking about like the porpoise and octopus don't have it listed as a racial bonus feat. I believe they should.

So by your and the other posters assertation that monsters are not built up this would be perfectly fine build of a "new monster". Outsider, 8HD, BAB +8, (should have 4 feats), I can decide to make it a multiple arm demon and take my four feats as: Improved Critical (warhammer) Improved...

Yes, I was aware of those. I just believe that 2HD creatures shouldn't suddenly qualify for Weapon Finesse or Weapon Focus. It would have been nice if WOTc Errata was more complete. A good number of creatures in the Animal section appear to have the wrong number of skill points as well. Like...

Paranoia XP is a Mongoose product and it is excellent. I'm disappointed that Monster Encyclopedia 2 has 36% of its monsters with errors in it making it have the same percentage of errors as Monster Manual 3. I am pleased that it is 36% and not 100% like Ultimate Monsters. I'm glad John did a...

1) I'm basing my premise on the situation that all monsters stating was reformed in 3.5 to conform to the same rules as character advancement. I disagree with the idea that a 5 HD advanced wolf didn't grow into that advancement. For comparison I would take the example from the MM p.292. 6 HD...

Because of John Cooper's reviews, I like many others probably have begun to look at my monsters statistics more closely. I have two issues that seem to be dropped. 1) I was looking through my monster manual and I saw a good number of 2 HD creatures that have Weapon Finesse. For example: the...

My group runs mainly in Mystara with adaptations to many of the old B,E,C et cetra lines. They are littered with cursed items. It almost seems like 1 out of every 5 items was cursed. We enjoy them and they are a regular part of our game. Of course that why I wrote Athenaeum Arcane: Cursed Items...