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All Pounce means is that the creature can move and make a Full Attack action in the first round of combat (which might include Rake). The description in MM2, changes "first round of combat" to "whenever the creature charges" which I like (for animal intelligence), but my good friend Daniel has...

Ah well, serves me for trusting my old memory (I couldn't remember that in the FAQ when I last read it) and didn't bother to search when this came up :) IceBear

Ah - I missed that FAQ entry. Oh well, learned something new. BTW - you got that thing memorized or something :) IceBear

Made irrelevant by FAQ entry. IceBear

Ok, if the -20 option is for everyone, then why bother with even listing that there is an Improved Grab for the different monsters? Sure, Improved Grab also lets a monster attempt a grapple on a successful hit for free, but the only place the -20 option is mentioned is in the Improved Grab...

If that fighter had such high stats, how did he fail his Will save? I'm going to guess he rolled REALLY bad. A bad roll (or good roll) tends to negates stats regardless. BTW - legendary characters, IMHO, aren't legendary because of high stats - it's because they are high LEVEL. There is...

Agreed, but the current evidence doesn't seem to indicate that it is being revised. I'd meet my players half way and give them a bonus (+10 or +20, whatever seems reasonable) to Escape Artist checks. This would help define what it can be used for (underwater, vs movement restricting spells...

Here is the quote from the rogue section of the SRD: From what I remember, lots of smarter people than me (Caliban, etc) use it this way. It makes the power TOO powerful otherwise, IMHO. IceBear

Will do Mr Forrester, sir! Sir! Thank God for ignore. Buh-bye

Agreed - with the way it is. I was responding to those that said "The player must pick a square immediately - without counting squares - and then we determine the area of effect". That could be hard for someone that's spatially challenged :) IceBear

Getting tired of these "broken" threads. I'm sure you'll get a lot of people telling you that they agree it's broken. IceBear

Can you even cast a spell with somatic components while prone? IceBear

The problem with all these methods - making the player judge where to place the spell - is that the player != character. It is quite likely that an INT18 wizard would place the spell better than his player :) Still, using a skill roll to simulate adds an extra roll. Oh well :) IceBear

Which is why they either need to lower the grappling bonuses due to size or raise the CR of these creatures. There is some speculation that with trip they will be adding a save, and although they said that grapple would remain much the same, perhaps they will put a save in there too. Again, I...

What's the save going to be, and the DC? Some of these big monsters have horrible Reflex saves. I don't have a problem with making it easier for the for the PCs to avoid being tripped as they go up in level, but it shouldn't be easier for them to trip a dragon with it. Yes, it does bother me...

This is why I like the variant from Song and Silence. The rogue that has specialized in tumbling will still probably succeed, but with the opposed check it's no longer a sure thing. Then again, I've only had rogue NPCs in my campaign and no rogue players so I've only heard praise from the...

I like that :) IceBear

I use the tumble variant from Song and Silence (other ones might be better, but this one is "offical" I guess). I'd definitely have the dragon (it is intelligent after all) ready an action to attack the first person to come within range and then use the Reflex Save (+10 bonus if he tries to...

Yes, this tactic (and several others - like grappling) favor big monsters over PCs. I don't think this needs to be fixed - I find it hard to picture someone walking over and tripping a Storm Giant with a leg sweep, so any fix that makes this possible I wouldn't like. In past editions big...

Agreed about the Kraken. It's intelligence, number of improved grapple attacks, and size are some of the reasons I think it's CR is off. Now, before we go too far, the intelligence thing would only apply to creatures with constrict. The swallow whole thing is NASTY and roleplaying...