Acrobatics
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| ACROBATICS | DEX, Athletics |
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You can flip, dive, roll, tumble, and perform other acrobatic maneuvers, and you’re also adept at keeping your balance under difficult circumstances.
Check: Make an Acrobatics check (DC 25) to move through a space occupied by an opponent or obstacle (moving over, under, or around). A failed roll means you don’t get past the obstacle.
- Balancing: You can walk on a precarious surface. A successful check lets you move at half your speed along the surface as a move action. A failure indicates you spend your move action just keeping your balance and do not move. A failure by 5 or more means you fall. The difficulty varies with the conditions of the surface. While balancing, you lose your dodge bonus to Defense unless you have 5 or more ranks in Acrobatics. If you take damage while balancing, make an immediate Acrobatics check to avoid falling. Accelerated Movement: You can try to move faster than normal while balancing. You can move your full speed, but take a –5 penalty on your Acrobatics check. Moving twice your speed requires two checks, one for each move action.
| TABLE 4.4: BALANCE | |
| Surface | DC |
| More than 12 in. wide | 5 |
| 7-12 in. wide | 10 |
| 2-6 in. wide | 15 |
| Less than 2 in. wide | 20 |
| Uneven or angled | +5 |
| Slippery | +5 |
- Jumping: You can make an Acrobatics check to extend the distance you can jump (see Jumping, page 34) by 1 foot per point your check exceeds DC 15.
- Falling: You can make an Acrobatics check (DC 5) to lessen damage from a fall. Subtract the amount your roll exceeds the DC from the distance of a fall in feet before determining damage. So an Acrobatics check of 20 (15 more than the DC) reduces the effective distance of a fall by 15 feet. A fall reduced to 0 distance does no damage and you land on your feet. You can reduce knockback damage in the same way.
- Avoiding Being Tripped: You can make an Acrobatics check in place of the Strength or Dexterity check to avoid a trip attack (see Trip, page 159). You cannot use Acrobatics to make trip attacks, however.
- Instant Up: You can make an Acrobatics check (DC 20) to stand from a prone position as a free action rather than a move action.
- Performance: You can use Acrobatics as a Perform skill to impress an audience.
Try Again: No.
Action: Free. If you actually move as part of your Acrobatics check, then it counts as part of your move action.
Special: The balancing aspects of Acrobatics can be used untrained.
Challenges: All of the following Challenges are appropriate for Acrobatics:
- Accelerated Acrobatics: You can try to cross a precarious surface faster than normal. If you increase the Difficulty Class by 5, you can move your full speed as a move action. Moving twice your speed in a round requires the penalty plus two skill checks, one for each move action. You can also accept this penalty to charge across a precarious surface; this requires one skill check per multiple of your speed (or fraction thereof) that you charge.
- Perfect Balance: In return for increasing the Difficulty Class by 5, you move with such grace and agility that you maintain your dodge bonus to defense while balancing.
- Perilous Balance: You can shake or disturb the surface on which you are balancing (e.g., swaying on a tightrope). If your check succeeds after increasing the Difficulty Class by 5, you keep your balance and impose a +5 modifier on the Difficulty Classes of all Acrobatics checks that others must make on the surface until the next round.
