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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 4749212" data-attributes="member: 1164">Are you sure that is what the rulebooks called for? Unless the Special Edition Faux Leather PHB or Rules Compendium have changed the wording on <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/specialAttacks.htm#charge" target="_blank">charging</a>...You must have a clear path toward the opponent, and nothing can hinder your movement (such as difficult terrain or obstacles). Here’s what it means to have a clear path. First, you must move to the closest space from which you can attack the opponent. (If this space is occupied or otherwise blocked, you can’t charge.) Second, if any line from your starting space to the ending space passes through a square that blocks movement, slows movement, or contains a creature (even an ally), you can’t charge. (<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/conditionSummary.htm#helpless" target="_blank">Helpless</a> creatures don’t stop a charge.) Indeed the wording of the splatbook feat Leap Attack also seems to go along with the mere presence of slowing terrain ruins a charge.<a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20050107a&page=3" target="_blank">Leap Attack</a> You can combine a powerful charge and a mighty leap into one devastating attack. Prerequisites: Jump 8 ranks, Power Attack. Benefit: You can combine a jump with a charge against an opponent. If you cover at least 10 feet of horizontal distance with your jump, and you end your jump in a square from which you threaten your target, you can double the extra damage dealt by your use of the Power Attack feat. If you use this tactic with a two-handed weapon, you instead triple the extra damage from Power Attack. This attack must follow all the normal rules for using the Jump skill and for making a charge, except that you ignore rough terrain in any squares you jump over. Now the <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /> <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/er/20030221a" target="_blank">FAQ</a> does try to claim a character can normally jump over rough terrain as part of a charge, but the faq claims a lot of things. IMO This is one of the times the FAQ has a good idea, but it is also one of the times the FAQ suggests something other than what the rules call for. Can my character make a jumping charge attack, eitherwith a long jump or a high jump? Do I need the feats Fleetof Foot or Psionic Charge? If I can make a high jump aspart of a charge, can I use it in conjunction with BattleJump?You can make a long jump as part of a charge. You muststill follow all the normal rules for making a charge, such asmoving in a straight line on the battle grid. This tactic can letyou avoid some of the normal restrictions against charging. If asquare of difficult terrain is between you and your chargetarget, you could possibly jump over it with a long jump. (Thefact that your jump means that your movement isn’t a perfectlystraight line doesn’t make the charge illegal—you’re stillmoving in a straight line as far as the battle grid is concerned,and the jump isn’t really changing your direction.)Making a high jump as part of a charge is trickier. It’s hardto imagine a significant high jump that doesn’t change yourdirection; after all, you’re now moving vertically rather thanlaterally. Furthermore, if you have to slow your movement atany point of the charge, you can’t make the charge. Forinstance, if you make a high jump toward a ledge as part of acharge, then have to pull yourself up to the ledge beforecontinuing, that’s not a charge, it’s a move or a double move.It’s the same for the “hop up” maneuver described on page 77in the PH: Since it counts as 10 feet of movement, you can’tperform such a maneuver as part of a charge.Fleet of Foot (found in the PG) and Psionic Charge (fromthe XPH) might make performing a high jump as part of acharge a little easier. Both feats allow a single change indirection of up to 90 degrees during the charge, which shouldbe sufficient to allow you to make a high jump as part of acharge. Neither feat allows you to ignore the restrictions onslowed movement during a charge.If you’re capable of making a high jump that brings you atleast 5 feet above an enemy, you could employ the Battle Jumpfeat (from Una) without having to start at a higher location. Ofcourse, that would require a Jump check result of at least 40 fora Medium opponent, so it’s out of reach of most characters.You’d also have to make the Jump check from adjacent to yourfoe, so it would provoke attacks of opportunity (since you’removing upward out of a threatened square). All in all, it soundslike a pretty tricky maneuver, but cinematically very excitingindeed.</blockquote>

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