Base Movement and Fast Movement.

[Reynaldo Mondok]

The Oread Burrower racial feat states that you are able to burrow at 1/2 your base speed. For an Oread (whos base speed is 20) that is 10 feet. Now if I wanted to do an Oread Monk, who gains Fast Movement (+30 at 9th level when the Oread are able to pick this feat), would his burring speed be 25 feet, or would it still be 10 feet?

[Oladon]

Monk: Fast Movement wrote:

At 3rd level, a monk gains an enhancement bonus to his land speed, as shown on Table: monk. A monk in armor or carrying a medium or heavy load loses this extra speed.

Emphasis added.

[Reynaldo Mondok]

Oladon, thank you for pointing that out. I understand it is an enhancement bonus. I guess my question is, why the feat mentions 1/2 base speed and not "gain the burrow speed of 10 feet." I don't know of any way to manipulate the base speed of a creature. Unless I am missing something.

[Drakkiel]

Quote:

Fleet

You are faster than most.

Benefit: While you are wearing light or no armor, your base speed increases by 5 feet. You lose the benefits of this feat if you carry a medium or heavy load.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times. The effects stack.

There ya go :)...probably others too...but this is what always pops in my head when I see "base speed" lol

[Oladon]

Yeah, Fleet will do it.

OP: In addition, it's an enhancement bonus to your land speed, not your base speed.

[Glendwyr]

Other ways of increasing the base speed that occur to me off the top of my head are travel domain and horizon walker (via terrain dominance - plains).

Thus, an oread monk/cleric/horizon walker (ugh) might have a base speed of 40 feet, a burrow speed of 20 feet, and a land speed of 70 feet, for example.

[Drakkiel]

@Glendwyr: sadly I haven't ever played a class that chose a domain (yet)...well a druid...but I took an AC for that :)

I will remember those now though so thanks for your input

[The White W0rg]

Oladon wrote:

Monk: Fast Movement wrote:

At 3rd level, a monk gains an enhancement bonus to his land speed, as shown on Table: monk. A monk in armor or carrying a medium or heavy load loses this extra speed.

Emphasis added.

Sorry, but I have to correct you. The book says base speed not land speed.

I have the fifth edition in case anyone was wondering. Not sure if it is different across editions.

[Jeraa]

The White W0rg wrote:

Sorry, but I have to correct you. The book says base speed not land speed.

I have the fifth edition in case anyone was wondering. Not sure if it is different across editions.

THe official PRD, which is maintained by Paizo and generally includes the most up-to-date version of the rules, says land speed.

[Aioran]

The PRD specifically says land speed, though.

At any rate the fast movement ability is an enhancement bonus to base speed and the other ability uses 1/2 base speed. Fast movement doesn't interact with burrowing.

[MacGurcules]

Your base speed is just your speed while unarmored/unencumbered. It includes any bonuses you may have such as a barbarian's fast movement or a monk's enhancement bonus. If you've got multiple means of travel, you have a base speed for each.

If it doesn't specify otherwise, I'd say it's safe to assume the Oread Burrower feat refers to their base land speed.