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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 5492883" data-attributes="member: 5122">In my case, my Dex is 17.  At 2nd level, I have +8 to Acrobatics.The bad guy was Fighter 3, Str 16, Dex 14 for a CMD of 18.  Moving at half-speed, I need to roll a 10 (55%).  Moving at full speed, I must roll a natural 20 (5%).  (Both numbers assume no difficult terrain or other bad guys pushing the DCs higher, of course.)You're right, that 55% isn't too bad, and I agree that Tumble was too easy in 3.5.  But that +10 for moving at full speed effectively means it's all but impossible to do against level-appropriate bad guys.But that's not a problem with CMD, but rather with the full-speed modifier.</blockquote>