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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2539072" data-attributes="member: 18280">Heh heh.Personally, I don't have problems with players using the rules in a way the designers hadn't intended.  The designers probably didn't think about PCs falling on purpose, but that doesn't mean that there should be a hard stricture against it.  I agree that anyone who falls on purpose must have an overwhelming desire to escape his current location (somehow the perceived advantage must outweigh the pervceived cost), but there is a cost, and this seems like something a person could do.  Perhaps the PC then becomes a member of the campaign world's Darwin Award recepients.  I am not saying it should be allowed because it is "super-KEWL" or anything like that.  I suggest rather that a character might, under duress (or through foolhardiness), simply believe that it is a possible option.  Plus, allowing the occasional "freebie" (if you consider falling to be a move-equivelent action, which I do not [unless anvils do not fall in your world because they have no move speed]) because it is believeable seems preferable to me to changing the way the campaign world works simply to prevent the PC from falling on purpose.The question really does hinge, I suppose, on whether or not you can take a 5-foot step over a ledge.  Me, I have trouble with the whole idea of the PC somehow knowing that an area is difficult terrain before taking the 5-foot step (or otherwise checking).  Can someone make a 5-foot step onto an illusory floor covering a pit?  Why can't you make a 5-foot step in rough terrain (assuming that falling prone and/or providing an AoO as the whole thing proves more difficult than you expected are potential consequences of doing so)?RC</blockquote>

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