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It's a commercial product, and was never released in any free format afaik. Anyone sending you the file would be breaking IP laws.

They may have had a better or worse sense of smell. We don't really know. What we do know is that the nasal bone structures show that they must have had wide, flared nostrils. That says nothing about sense of smell either way. But it says something very specific about temperature adaptation...

Specifically on the topic of physiology and cold-adaptation... Neanderthal males averaged 166 cm tall (5' 5½") (females 154 cm, or 5' ½" tall), and weighing 77.6 kg (females 66.4 kg). That's a BMI of about 28, making them about as broad/bulky as a slightly overweight human. They had a...

Well, it was shared among every branch of H. sapiens except for those in Australia and remote islands. That seems pretty shared to me. I suspect H. neanderthalensis never used bows (or spear-throwers), as they are a level more complex in operation than simple thrown rocks and spears (for one...

Oh dear... :eek: Define "early on". We have reliable evidence of bows existing from 64,000 years ago. That's certainly before my time, and fits the British legal definition of "since time immemorial". Certainly, large herd animals can be hunted with spears. But they can also be hunted with...

DR is "I know I can take that hit, so I'm not spending so much effort dodging it".

The paragraph below is from my house rules document: Hit Points are a "hero shield", and do not necessarily represent not actual hits, but the amount of effort, chi, ki, stamina, inner beauty, divine providence, whatever, that went into avoiding the attack. Note that hit point damage can...

The Frostburn Neanderthal fills the "cold-adapted proto-human brute" trope quite perfectly. That isn't H. Neanderthalis though. The nose structure actually suggests they were adapted for hot climates. As for prehistoric weapons... The oldest known spear-type weapon dates from 400,000 years...

Okay cool. I guess it's time for another katana thread then :blush:

Oh I'm sorry. Were we having badwrongfun again?

Frostburn Neanderthals fulfil all the expected tropes, but they are about as historically accurate as the average depiction of Vikings.

DM migraines.

Ok, I misrtead it. So, a rogue (or other sneak-attack-capable character) who has the Combat Reflexes feat and is flat-footed and is in range of an enemy who is either flanked or flat-footed can use his sneak attack while flat-footed provided that enemy does something to allow an attack of...

SRD disagrees. Combat Reflexes simply lets you make additional aoos. It doesn't let you make an aoo where you couldn't have made one without the feat.

Think about those times you are by RAW unconscious or flat-footed. I don't think a rogue under either those conditions should actually be able to perform a sneak attack anyway. In fact, under either of those, no one can perform any attack at all by RAW. If you examine it closely, my post was...

What about them? KNock them unconscious, and they dodge with an effective Dex of zero like anyone else. Flat-footed, they lose their Dex bonus like anyone else.

My rule is that flat-footed means your effective Dex is capped at 10, which means your Dex penalty still applies, but you lose your Dex bonus. Held/unconscious, means your effective Dexterity is 0, which means a Dex modifier of -5. Same result, different reasoning.

Yes. To be sure, it was also set up with the assumption that 9th-11th level was about when characters would be settling down to run kingdoms rather than continue adventuring. It was set up so political power rather than personal power would be the next benchmark.

Dragonstar ;)

Magitech, perhaps?