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Usually not. However, the fact that Epic Hit Dice continue to give BAB make Epic Cretaures pretty absurd. For normal creatures - it tends not to be a big deal. Many creatures lose a comparable amount of damage to what they get out of weapon use just from the fact that their natural weapons...

Good point. I read through the "pin your opponent" section, but not the "if you're pinned" section. The pinning section no longer mentions that they are not helpless and simply says that they are immobile (which includes helplessness) - so I got that one wrong. Humorous Side Note: after reading...

The thing is, at base, a character with two short swords who got exactly the same number of attacks as a greatsword user with both of their weapons, and suffered no to-hit penalties would be in exactly the same place damage wise as a greatsworder - and would still be in an inferior position with...

I don't think so. 1> That's not what it says. 2> As many have pointed out, if that is what they meant it would mean that it would become trivially easy for characters to put giant monsters that stepped on them into headlocks. I'm pretty sure it means exactly what it says. If the creature...

No problem. It's in "step 3: hold". As long as the creature with improved grab is taking the -20 he isn't even grappling and the other guy would have to make him be grappling before he could be pinned or damaged or anything. So the rogue has to go through the normal steps to bring the bear...

There is a possibility. Of course, Rich Baker saying something on a message board is almost as official as getting it printed on the main web page, which is in turn almost as official as Skip Williams saying it in a Dragon Magazine which is in turn almost as official as getting it into the FAQ...

While the grappling rules don't even come close to mentioning it on way or the other (they only preclude attacking with two weapons - which is in no way the same thing), the rules from the Monster Manual are a bit more explicit: And the PHB backs this up: So, by the rules, you get to attack...

While the rules don't specifically prohibit a diminutive object from being a light weapon for a medium cretaure - they do specificy that all diminutive objects are light weapons for small creatures - and that means that medium creatures can't use them. While the rules do not say that there...

They don't. But osme people on this thread were claiming that you could use the "attack with a weapon" grappling option with a natural weapon more than once per round if you had a high enough BAB. I disagree, but mostly I just didn't want to get into it. Well, the rules say that a grappling...

The bear loses 2/3 of his offensive potential by grappling. The barbarian loses an average of 5 points of damage from the loss from the weapon, and only gets to use his strength bonus once instead of one and a half times. Is that 2/3 of the Barbarian's offensive potential? If it isn't (and I...

Yes. There are weapons like the sunblade which have specific size rules. That does not mean that ogres can use Tiny objects as weapons any more than it means that humans can fight with large objects. -Frank

You are right. That is not explicitly worded. What is explicitly worded is: There is no slop there. A short sword is a tiny object. A dagger is also a tiny object. A diminutive object is smaller than that and is altered on category past light and cannot be used. That's explicit - your...

Darklone, what are you talking about? It doesn't really matter how big the handle is - many of these weapons (such as spiked chains and thrown rocks) don't have handles at all. A light weapon for a medium creature is tiny. A weapon of one size smaller than tiny is one weapon category smaller...

OK, let's take as our example a combat between a Brown Bear and 2 4th level Rogues. This is a much less controvertial example than a Dire Bear because it doesn't require us to answer the question of what - if anything - a bear gets out of having a high BAB. Both Rogues have strengths of 16...

On the exact same page, if you had bothered to keep reading: The examples of using small daggers have been acknowledged to be erroneous - as of course a Human simply can't use a small dagger because as a diminutive object it is moved one step beyond light and can't be used. Similarly, any...

Because a light weapon is two sizes smaller than you. So a medium creature's Light Weapon is a Tiny Object. Anything smaller than a light weapon cannot be used at all - not even as an improvised weapon. An Ogre can't use a Halfling's Longsword. Not as an improvised weapon, not under any...

Of course not. The smallest margin of failure d20 can support is 5% on an unopposed roll. That's way too high for a "Tightrope Walker". Other people who happen to be walking across Tightropes can have a chance of failure (although it should still be very small) - but a "Thief Acrobat" should...

In terms of total average damage bonus from the feat - yes. So what? You still did less total damage per hit, which means that you were less likely to get cleaves, which in turn were less likely to generate additional cleaves. What the feat was actually for was still encouraging cleaves - and...

I don't think that's a laudable goal. If something is so specific that only a select few character concepts would ever want it - and those character concepts shouldn't ever fail - it shouldn't be a skill at all. It should be a feat. I have no problem with the feat "Balance" - where you can walk...

The 3.5 weapon size rules are so messed up that Monkey Grip's effects - if any - would be entirely up to the DM. I mean, right now it takes a house rule to allow you to throw a baseball or kitchen knife at someone (what with medium sized creatures being unable to wield diminutive objects) - so...