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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8608495" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Enter the Athletics skill (and preferably a decent/high Strength score...). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />That is the difference. Not everyone is trained in Athletics, or has Mobile to gain +10 speed, etc. Most sprinters (especially at the college level and higher) are fairly strong and would have a good or better Strength score as well.And even the "common" person can "run" (sprinting is a different issue IMO), even if not for long.The simplest solution (for a starting point anyway) is to have "Dash" add double your speed to your movement for the turn, effectively making a speed 30 creature able to move 90 feet. Honestly, even that is a bit slow but something most "common" people can probably do. That would translate into about a 22-second 100-meter run. It is sort of fast, but not really compared to anyone who can actually "sprint".Next, allow skills to grant variable boosts like they used to. For instance, a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check might increase your Dash multiplier from x2 to x3, allowing you to move 120 feet (remember to add the original 30, which I included). DC 15 would be x4, for a total of 150, DC 20 is x5 for 180, and DC 25 is x6 for 210 total. At 210, you are basically Usain Bolt. Without Athletics proficiency and a decent Strength score, you aren't likely to make those higher DCs. If they seem too low, bump them all up by 5 even. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Add in a condition or two, like difficult terrain imposes disadvantage on the check, or perhaps a very smooth area would grant advantage instead, and you have a feasible system.For PCs, with feats and features, they could perform better than real-life, but for a fantasy game I think most people would expect that at some point.[USER=83242]@dave2008[/USER], FWIW I ran in high school and college as well, but my longest event was the 1/4-mile (which frankly, I hated doing when I had to!). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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