D&D 3.x (3.5) Tumbling Question

Fenris · Aug 18, 2003

Since in 3.5 you move up to half your movement when tumbling, how does a mixture of movement and tumbling occur? If I have a move of 30', can I tumble 5' and then move 20'?

rlphay · Aug 18, 2003

The way that I read this is as follows. If you have a movement of 30 and you wish to Tumble then you can do so for that turn but can only move 15 feet for that round. Or 30 feet on a double move. Then make your DC roll to avoid the AoO.

Particle_Man · Aug 18, 2003

Hmmm...I read it as "tumble at one half speed" meaning that every 5' of tumbling counts as 10' of your movement, so the part of your movement that is not spent tumbling would be "normal speed".

Kinda like diagonal movement.

rlphay · Aug 18, 2003

Particle_Man you are correct. I contacted WOTC on this and they said the same thing. There is also no limit to how far you can tumble as long as you have movement for it.

rlphay · Aug 18, 2003

Also remember that if you are tumbling diagonal then your movement can get expensive. 10' for the first square and 20' for the second.

Cybern · Aug 19, 2003

Particle_Man you are correct. I contacted WOTC on this and they said the same thing. There is also no limit to how far you can tumble as long as you have movement for it.

Wich is good for hi-level Monks... who ran circles around ennemies in 3.0 but could not tumble much. I guess that change was intended just for them

Nail · Aug 19, 2003

So...you can "mix 'n match" your tumble with a regular move?

Could you tumble for 5, then move for 5, then tumble for 5, etc?

How many tumble checks would you have to make?

Cybern · Aug 19, 2003

Nail, I'm pretty sure you can, as you make tumble checks against every ennemies you cross. Then I guess you could make a tumble check for each "tumble" (consecutive tumbled squares counted as one tumble).

Nail · Aug 19, 2003

Right. I had forgotten about that. Thanks!

Camarath · Aug 19, 2003

I don't know if you guys have seen this of not, but this could be a lot of fun for a high level monk.

From SRD
Accelerated Tumbling: You try to tumble past or through enemies more quickly than normal. By accepting a –10 penalty on your Tumble checks, you can move at your full speed instead of one-half your speed.