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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 3848890" data-attributes="member: 51942">Ok I looked at the effects, and I think you should probably tweak them some more, though I'm not sure exactly how...The boots negate penalties to jump from speed, but don't negate bonuses from speed.  That leaves you in the odd situation that two characters with the same speed and the same boots might jump wildly different distances.  In any case, it's not clear to me if the penalties you're negating include those caused by a lower base speed: would these boots be great for a halfling, say?  Further, they negate penalties do to "bindings".  Clearly, however, you can't jump if you're completely bound - so does this mean that you can jump even when grappled?  Can you jump right out of ropes and avoid escape artist checks?I'd limit the effect more clearly, and make this aspect less absolute in general.  To balance that loss in power, just grant a competence bonus to jump additionally.  I think the flavor you're aiming for is that the boots let you jump even when others couldn't.  Also note that a DM's best friend for adjudicating circumstances - just applying a modifier on a roll - is much harder to justify if the boots simply remove modifiers completely.Perhaps you can just negate penalties to jump caused by medium or heavy load, and remove the armor check penalty to jump checks.  That way, mostly the character has no penalties to jump, but if special circumstances change his base-speed, or otherwise reduce his mobility, they'll still have effect.I like the fact that jumped distance doesn't count towards movement.  But combined with the lack of running start - can a character jump multiple times during one move?  Can he jump once during a move but twice in a double move?  Normally, the rules don't provide for this limitation (so you can jump as much as you want) since you're limited by the obvious - movement speed.I think you should reconsider the anti-pressure-plate feature as well.  Generally, magic items can't penetrate illusions any better than any other creature, and certainly can't determine future consequences with some sort of divine insight.  Such a feature is a powerful divination ability and should be explicitly mentioned.  How can the boots distinguish between an intentional jump down and accidentally jumping down?  I'd say, let the wearer walk on all sorts of surfaces ALA <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#horseshoesofaZephyr" target="_blank">Horseshoes of a Zephyr</a> - i.e. it's not that the boots determine whether somethings dangerous, they just support you even on water or any other surface - the advantage is that the effect is well-defined, there's no question of when it kicks in (how deep does the hole have to be?  what if it's filled with water?)Also, note that the air walking ability these shoes confer is quite powerful.  Normal Air Walk would be about 42000 gp (using DMG guidelines - they should be less, of course), but these boots only provide a 5ft movement speed (upwards too?)   Still, 10000 is too cheap.  If you reduce the effect to a feather fall, instead of a stable but slow fly, it's much less game-breaking and hence much cheaper.</blockquote>

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