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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frostmarrow" data-source="post: 619562" data-attributes="member: 1122">Chase Rules (Updated)Chase RulesThere are two kinds of participants in a chase: hunters and prey. An opposed check determines the outcome of the chase.1d20 + base speed + Str bonus (for hunter*) or Dex bonus (for prey*).* Strength is the key ability for an aggressor and dexterity is vital to avoid harm.Whenever a combatant makes a double move (not a run),  the space that the combatant started out in is not considered threatened. However, any opposing combatants can declare a chase. The prey makes a double move. On the hunter's turn the hunter makes a double move too and must get whithin reach (5' for a medium-sized character) or fall out of the chase. The involved parties make opposed checks. If the prey beats the check of all hunters the prey may immediately move 5' extra. If any hunter beats the check of the prey that hunter may immediately execute a melee attack (or do anything that can be done as a melee attack or a melee touch attack, including attempts to disarm, trip, or make a grab to start a grapple). For ties on chase checks, the character with the higher key ability score wins; Strength for the hunter and Dexterity for the prey.Modifiers:• For each 5' a hunter is from the prey the hunter suffers a -5 penalty.• A ranger may add his Favored Enemy bonus if it applies to the opposition regardless whether the ranger is hunter or prey.• A character under the influence of a haste-spell adds 1/3 of his base speed to his check. I.e. A base speed of 15' grants a +5 bonus to the check.• The terrain might grant a +2 bonus to the hunter or prey at the DM's discretion. (A crowded market place is in the prey's favor but an open field is advantageous to the hunter.)Any character can enter a chase as hunter at the end of their turn as a free action.Chasing is not considered running and as such the participants do not lose their Dexterity bonus to AC and is not restricted to moving in a straight line only. (Yet, any participants in a chase are actually running at the top of their ability but are also zigzagging and feinting in order to catch or avoid being caught.) Tumbling is allowed and so is Attacks of Opportunity.</blockquote>

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