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First, off, sorry about misreading. I saw "Run" and thought about the standard feat. I didn't realize that you were proposing a skill with the same name. Voice of experience here: I wrote a super hero game a decade or three ago that included Run as a skill. Everyone maxed it out, always...

To pick a nit, Run doesn't add to your base movement ability. It adds to your multiplier when doing a full run. Since a full run (4x move) happens so rarely, and may in fact be impossible for some who prefer heavy armor, bumping that potential to 5x isn't such a big thing as one might think...

Consider an alternative: Many monsters have an ability called Pounce. it lets them take all their natural weapon attacks as part of a Charge. So create a Feat that allows PC types to do the same. Maybe make it part of the Mobility feat tree. Charge conditions have to be met, and they suffer...

Hmm. One thing about the rule I proposed: It applies equally to all classes. A Wizard gets an extra attack when BAB hits 5 too, just like the Fighter. Your rule seems class specific. Can a Wizard do a move, followed by a full round spell if they make the right Concentration or Spellcraft...

We used a different solution than more or better feats. After all, even though Fighters get a mountain of them, they still have enough to really follow only one, maybe two feat trees to the end, where the real benefits come into play. Our approach was to make a change in the iterative attack...

I've seen a lot of people going on about "super" weapons in games; The speed and armor piercing power of a the Katana, the punch of compound bows and the actual armor shredding capacity of things like Lucern hammers etc. I'm kind of burned out by it all, to be honest, so I'd be tempted to...

The pull of a bow is normally measured not at the at-rest point, but at 28 inches of draw. That's the average draw length for an adult. Which doesn't answer your question, I know. No, it doesn't amp your strength. You still need to be able to pull it back to the break point (the point where...

There's a technique for shooting called "Sting Walking" that gives many of the benefits of sights, without actually having sights. Consider normal "Gap Shooting" style: Gap shooting attempts to compensate for the "gap" between where the arrow is when drawn, and where the eye is. The nock of...

In our regular D&D 3.5 game, my character (Wizard 11/Aristocrat 1/Eldritch Knight 2) had acquired a ring with a Wish on it. The Wish, however, was to be granted through the services of an Efreet, which made it a somewhat dangerous commodity. (As a reminder, Efreeti are Lawful Evil, and hate...

Dire Pegasus? Dire Hippogriff? Dire Griffin? Dire is a template, after all, and can be applied to just about anything. The description says that the Dire version is larger and meaner than normal. While a Dire Horse is in the same size category as the normal horse, there's no reason why a...

I'm going to second Dinosaur. Specifically, I'm thinking Megaraptor. (See below). The MegaRaptor is a bipedal dinosaur, similar to the Velociraptor (Deinonychus in D&D terms) and T-Rex. Like them it's a carnivore. It has a base speed of 60, same as a riding horse, and has the Run feat...

Because two half-orcs can fall in love, (or lust, whichever), there can reasonably be half-orcs who have no Human or Orcish parents. So try this: A Half Orc is a person with both Human and Orcish ancestry, in approximately equal amounts.

Part of the problem with a hard-rules approach is that the Half Celestial Template write up in the 3.5 Monster Manual says that they have wings, and have a fly speed, but it never says how big those wings are (or if it does, I can't find it.) That being said, I'm pretty sure that they are wider...

Okay. Many castles have light siege engines in various forms, catapults and such, as a means to damage siege towers and the like. A Stone Giant's castle might have such things, but they're more likely to be scorpion (a sort of javelin thrower) than catapult. First, because giants are...

Character A moved through a square threatened by character B. Or Character A tries to cast a spell, or use a ranged weapon, or rise from a prone position. Doesn't matter. AoO only happens if character B is armed with a melee weapon (or a natural weapon, when applicable). The AoO must be...

Well, per the 3.5 rules cited earlier, since the summoned creatures aren't "real" and aren't actually killed, then the answer is no it's not Evil. At least, no more Evil than sending a Fireball to blow open a door: The poor fireball gave its all to save the caster the trouble of turning a...

Mechanically, they don't exist until the DM needs them, and whether they live or die, they cease to exist once the scene is over. Why bother going through the work of making them functional? Except for the whole animal companion/familiar thing I mean.

The other oddity: Bears have Tracking as a Feat and Scent as a racial ability. Yet that have no Survival skill. Functionally speaking, they aren't able to successfully forage for food, or at least not enough to feed themselves in the wild. I guess that explains the picnic baskets...

Arguable either way. No way to tell if that works all the time, which would be Die Hard. Extra Con from Rage, giving extra (if temporary) hit points also fits. In a somewhat paradoxical scene, there was an occasion where a bear and wolverine were both found dead. The wolverine was in the...

IRL, bears have something very similar to D&Ds Rage. As I mentioned earlier, the term "berserk" is from the Norse for "Bear shirt". To put on the "bear serken" (bear shirt) was to try and invoke the spirit and fury of the bear. It was a literal thing, a shirt made of bear fur. There was a...