Prince of Persia

[blargney the second]

Xeph Swordsage with Up the Walls.

 

[Sejs]

Skill tricks, and assloads of ranks in jump, balance, tumble, and climb.

 

[Arkhandus]

Re: Up The Walls: The character just has to take the Wild Talent feat first. That'll give them access to psionic feats. Wild Talent as the human bonus feat, Up The Walls as the 1st-level character feat (or 3rd-level).

Leap of the Heavens makes sense too. And he could probably take Mental Leap (unnamed +10 bonus on a Jump check, expending psionic focus). Rest of the feats would go into weapon stuff most likely (maybe multiclassed 1-2 levels each in Swashbuckler and Fighter, wouldn't hurt since he's Human and so his highest class, swordsage, would count as his favored class).

 

[frankthedm]

I was just playing P.o.P t2t. it got me wondering. are there feats, class features, ect. that mimik what he can do? running on walls, jumping from wall to wall to climb that sorta thing.

The problem is PoP is a video game designed with the intent of making the character perform impossible acts of acrobatics while still mainaing a suspension of disbelief. In D&D until magic enters the scene, gravity wins over 'cool tricks'. The Psionic feat that oters have have bandied about actually give the character "magnetic feat" that shut of at the end of his turn. The character is not using momentum to stay on the wall, the power lets him walk up and down the wall, regardless of momentum.

DC 35 tumble check, as long as the walls are within 10' of each other, IIRC. It was in Oriental Adventures, and I think it got updated in the DMG for epic level skill checks.

Sounds aboout right.

 

[Arkhandus]

Not really. You have to begin and end on a normal surface, and it only applies to move actions (not 5 foot steps or the like) and certain other movement the feat specifies. You can't go along ceilings, only walls and similar vertical surfaces. You do use momentum for it, but you use your psionic talents to manipulate your center of gravity and your inertia to somehow make it work for a few short seconds.

If it were some kind of 'magnetic feet' effect, it wouldn't be restricted from use along ceilings.

 

[Goblyn]

Not really. You have to begin and end on a normal surface, and it only applies to move actions (not 5 foot steps or the like) and certain other movement the feat specifies. You can't go along ceilings, only walls and similar vertical surfaces. You do use momentum for it, but you use your psionic talents to manipulate your center of gravity and your inertia to somehow make it work for a few short seconds.

If it were some kind of 'magnetic feet' effect, it wouldn't be restricted from use along ceilings.

Actually, the feat only specifies a horizontal surface, though doesn't say anything about ceilings. Possibly it may be understood that a ceiling counts as a horizontal surface, but I suppose that the more restrictive interpretation would likely prevail.

Also, I don't remember the prince of Persia being able to run on ceilings anyway. I may be wrong, though; I haven't followed the series that closely.

 

[Arkhandus]

Nope, he doesn't.

And while the feat Up The Walls could sort of do what you say, it's not quite that way.

For one, it doesn't say it allows you to traverse ceilings. That prevents you from using it to move upon a ceiling (you can try, but you'd fall once you did because the feat doesn't allow ceiling-walking; thus, it wouldn't stop you from falling due to normal gravity). If you tried moving onto a ceiling, you would fall from gravity as normal.

Secondly, the feat doesn't say it prevents you from falling off a ceiling. It only prevents you from falling off a wall while you move. Thus, gravity will make you fall if you end your movement on a ceiling (or otherwise move onto a ceiling along the way, since the feat doesn't allow ceiling-walking).

 

[Goblyn]

And thus the more restrictive interpretation, as I mentioned.

It's too bad, though. AFAICT, there is no way to actually walk/run on a ceiling. Maybe an additional feat with Up the Walls as a prereq would be in order, but two feats for such a minor ability(ceiling walking) would be a pretty hefty price, I think.

As a side, I know spider climb can get you across the ceiling, but that's not walking or running.