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Yup--in 3.5, all monks get the same bonus, but on the down side, that bonus no longer stacks with other enhancement bonuses to speed (and almost all of them *are* enhancement bonuses.) So you don't really want boots of springing and striding as a monk any more. Note for epic levels (I'm...

The main problem I can think of that the standard + move action would cause is with the XPH's "hustle". Using hustle on the surprise round would allow a psion to cast a 1 round casting time power on the surprise round by beginning the casting in the normal standard action and completing in the...

Make sure to have a way to deal with opponents that grapple--this is a *very* painful thing for small characters. My halfling rogue/monk with high dex and maxed out escape artist skill didn't start being able to get out of grapples reliably until she bought a Vest of Escape. (Note: She does...

Looking at it closely, the font does not match that in my 3.0 PHB, and the line that breaks like "If used on an undead creature, harm acts / like heal." breaks between harm and acts in my PHB. My suspicion is that the above was generated from some other source.

To a certain degree, it kind of depends how you want to look at it--and, of course, paladins should probably be on the list as well, probably alongside druids and rangers. My take on it is that multiclassing into one of these *ought* to be predicated on some sort of access to appropriate...

Well, one might argue that this is a choice the players get to make. Personally, I always make lightly armored fighters specifically because of this. On the one hand, massive armor can be nice. But in the games I play, being able to move around the battlefield is *much* more important. (This...

Yup--and as for why, it was part of an overarching rewording of all of the action rules--the breakdown into "full round action", "partial action", "standard action", "move equivalent action" etc. was a bit confusing. The new breakdown is just this: Standard Action (e.g. attack, cast a normal...

There's no such thing as a move equivalent action in 3.5. Instead, there are move actions. So yes, you can do an extra thing that you could do if you had only a move action. For example: move, draw your weapon, etc.

Er? Monk speed and Boots of Striding and Springing do not stack in 3.5 (which I assume you're using, since you're using XPH.) Both provide an enhancement bonus.

Agreed--it looks fine. Notice that a level 4 fighter with 18 strength using a two-handed weapon is only at a disadvantage of 5 points--since all the modifers except the +2 from the Ranseur and the +4 from the feat apply to him as well. Also, a locked gauntlet has the penalty of making...

Dear God. You really don't know anything about Greyhawk, do you? I mean--monks aren't wandering around all over the place, but that's primary because they're *gasp* members of monastic orders. Specifically, followers of Zuoken, descended from the ancient Baklunish, and members of the Scarlet...

(Wow. This thread is long now--I bet my reply gets lost in the shuffle.) Heh. Actually, my current PC is a halfling rogue 3/monk 9 who gave up all of her possessions at the start of level 11 (after a bit of plot in which she cracked and nearly became entirely insanely evil.) And the whole...

Um. Just as a note--there *is* a mechanism by which monks become jumping fiends in 3.5--leap of the clouds isn't there any more, and you don't multiply by speed, but you *do* get +4 for every 10' of speed higher than 30 (and -6 for every 10' slower). My halfling rogue 3/monk 9 has a jump...

Also note that Shuriken are a special monk weapon, but you probably don't want to count them in this. :)

The automatic-ness of it could become troublesome if you go to epic levels, though. I've noticed several cases where the epic SRD has *not* really been completely updated to deal with 3.5 issues. One is that it still claims that small and dwarven monks only get half as much speed as other...

There's a reason that when I make a fighter, their Intelligence score is usually 14, and never less than 12. ;>

I chose Skill Mastery, but to be honest: ALL of them are useful, unless you know that your character never uses tactics that will benefit from the ability. The reason I chose Skill Mastery is that there are number of powerful ways this can benefit your character. If you like mobility, getting...

Hehe. Yup, this is a nice feature--and like most choices in D&D3E, there's always a certain amount of angst involved in the choice (at least for me.) For example: my monk character has a pretty darned good Tumble skill: currently +20 at level 10. This means she can always tumble past a single...

Just so you know, the short form for why the sweepstakes would also be limited to U.S. Residents only is that like the questionnaire laws, the sweepstakes laws also vary really dramatically from country to country. Hiring a hundreds-of-dollars-per-hour international law specialist so you can...

You might want to take a look at this, although it's more about large-scale combat. :) http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha/aow.html In a one-on-one fight and within the D&D framework, I do think that it depends heavily on the terrain, except for one thing: unless your light fighter has a...