How cool is 3.5e grappling

[AuraSeer]

Only one small thing annoys me: I like the chance to move while grappling but how do you picture a gnome fighter 10 moving, grappled, with like 3 1st level half-orcs warriors grappling along?

By the encumbrance rules, a fighter with Str 18 can drag 1500 pounds. So as long as each orc weighs less than 500 pounds (including armor and gear), that works just fine.

 

[Tellerve]

Does anyone else wish they had the option like in d20 modern of being able to choke each other while in a grapple? As this is a common occurance in movies I had hoped it would make it into 3.5, especially when I though d20 modern had a lot of the changes 3.5 was going to have. At any rate, no real biggie as I'll probably add it anyways, but just was wondering what people thought.

Tellerve

 

[orbitalfreak]

Uhm... am I wrong, or you can activate a magic item multiple times in a round if you have multiple attacks and it isn't spell-completion triggered?

Relevant information from the scan:

If You're Grappling
...Some of these actions take the place of an attack (rather than being a standard action or a move action).

Activate a Magic Item: ...You don't need to make a grapple check to activate the item.

Looking at these, I would say that the rules of one magic-activation-thingy per round still hold.

 

[Zappo]

Ah, I misread. *phew*

 

[dcollins]

Does this mean that the rules no longer allow for a doughty halfling or gnome to climb up on an ogre, grapple him, and smack away?

Unchanged from current rules. See 3rd Ed. PHB, p. 137, under "Hold".