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The extra Hit Dice gained by an animal companion, familiar, or paladin's mount represent supernatural toughness rather than an increase in size. A paladin's warhorse doesn't increase from Large to Huge size because of its extra HD; likewise a wolf animal companion shouldn't enlarge because of...

Actually, most animals ought to be able to just wear a belt as a belt, unless it's a "hipless" form like a snake or a porpoise, which would have trouble keeping it on. Given that the Glove and Boot slots are probably going to be unusable 90% of the time in animal form, taking away the Belt slot...

Well, since the scimitar seems to be included because of its sickle/crescent moon shape, you could point out the bows are also a crescent shape... Is that your paint job on the pic of the minis? Mighty well done if so...

Given the size and weight of the "howdah", those straps would be BIG, probably a double-thickness of elephant leather (4-5 inches thick) and 2-3 feet wide. Given how much effort it takes to cut a normal leather belt with a knife, just hacking once or twice with a sword won't be enough; they'll...

Did no-one do anything with the hobyas? They can be especially effective if the party camps to rest and heal: Single hobyah approaches and sits up in a begging position. If a PC tosses it a morsel of food, it squeals excitedly, grabs the food, and runs off. About ten minutes later three...

Just remember to have the gnolls give nasty giggly laughs "Nyee hee hee hee hee!" every time someone slips on a smear trap. After the third or fourth time your players will really, really want to kill those gnolls, just to shut them up. :D

The Penaggalan (sp?) is from Southeast Asia - it supposedly had to soak its blood-gorged intestines in vinegar to fit them back into the body after a night of feasting. The mooncalf and moonbeast I believe come from an early work of science fiction, around the Wells/Verne/Merritt era, though I...

Never got to play Keep on the Borderlands - my starter set came with Into the Unknown, which seemed cool at the time but looking back on it was kinda crappy. Favorites: G1,G2,G3 - lots of fun. Clean out the kitchen, poison the mead, disguise yourselves as orcs, carry the poisoned mead into the...

Cf. WotC's "Grey Elf Snakestrike Duelist" miniature. I could see using the chain in the off-hand, paired with a rapier (better damage and crits). Make the trip as an off-hand attack when the foe is 10' away. If they go down, take your 5' step forward and stick 'em with the sword. If not, take...

Actually, wolves (and other canines) have nails, not claws. It's not just a matter of skill, but anatomy. A wolf's "claws" are just claw-shaped fingernails - they provide a little better traction on slippery surfaces, but if you tried to rip flesh with them they'd break/tear off. True claws...

Actually it's a lot more paperwork. If you make Int changes retroactive like Con changes, what happens when you take Int loss or drain? How do you allocate the loss of skill points? Take them from the highest-levelled skills? The lowest? Spread evenly? Better to just avoid the quagmire...

LokiDR, it's true that you can negate the Spot check entirely by finding total cover/concealment. However, A) then there's no need to Take 20, is there?, and B) then you can't see your foe, either, and you both end up relying on Listen checks. Atridis, I agree that a high-level rogue should be...

Consider the following scenario: "I ready a flask of alchemists fire to throw at the first critter through the door" (expecting a troll) "A rast comes through the door."(or other critter immune to fire) "Um, I throw a vial of acid instead." Would you allow that? I wouldn't. Sure they're both...

+20 CIRCUMSTANCE BONUS???? Holeeee @%#$^@. Let's stop and take a look at this, shall we? Say I'm a lvl1 rogue with a 16 Dex. I've probably maxed out my Hide ranks, which gives me a Hide skill of 7 (4 ranks + 3 Dex) if I don't take any feats. I try to Hide. If I'm in a hurry, I roll normally...

The Skill Focus, Acrobatic, and TWF feats were stated in the original description. That leaves him with one feat. ITWF is probably better than Dodge, thanks - I was going for maxing the AC but trading 1 pt of AC for 1 extra attack probably adds more to his survivability. Oh, waitasec - he...

I'd say a lot depends on circumstance. If you want them to actually fall, you'd need to grapple or entangle them. I suppose you might be able to disorient them, or change their direction of flight, but it's iffy. Something which should work vs winged flyers though, is for a groundwalker to...

12d6? Unless you've somehow found a light weapon that does 2d6 base damage, you must be talking Epic-level rogue now. First 2nd level, then 10th level, now Epic-level... since I don't have the Epic book nor intend to get it, let's nail this example down to 10th level, since most campaigns are...

I DID do the math. I use the term "average-damage equivalent" (AEG hereafter) to mean that over time (and hundreds of hits) the average damage done by the two weapons should be the same or very close. 19-20/x2 is AEG to 20/x3 18-20/x2 is AEG to 20/x4 19-20/x3 would be AEG to 20/x5 or 17-20/x2...

While I did find AU not quite up to the hype, I wasn't as unimpressed as you were, Iron_Chef. Production values: Art varies. The pieces by MacBin and Wood were quite good, but one of the others (David Hendee, though no sig appears on the pics) seems to feel that scratchy lines and big globs of...

Hmm. This is basically a "reference" text that will be primarily used by GMs during campaign creation, rather than being hauled to every session and passed around during play. So the extra sturdiness of the hardcover is less important. Therefore, given the lower cost and weight, I'd go with...