Fun w/ Balance, Jump and Tumble

Shadow64 · Apr 8, 2005

So I have a character with really good bonuses for Balance (+24), Jump (+33) and Tumble (+26) and 5 levels of Theif-Acrobat, so I don't have to worry about most of the penalties for movement when using these skills.

What kind of fun stuff can I do with these skills, and what books can I find them in? I've already checked out the "Extreme Tumbling" from OA, and some of the Complete books and there is some cool stuff in there. Book of Iron Might has some neat stuff, but I don't think the DM is up to adding that right now.

So what else is out there rules wise as to what I could do with these skills besides those uses mentioned in the PHB? Book title and pages would be helpful so i can look them up if i have the book.

Thanks a bunch!
Shadow64

cignus_pfaccari · Apr 8, 2005

Shadow64 said:
So what else is out there rules wise as to what I could do with these skills besides those uses mentioned in the PHB? Book title and pages would be helpful so i can look them up if i have the book.

The main reason I like having high ranks in all those skills is that terrain stops being something to worry about, and instead becomes something to take advantage of.

As an example, in a recent combat, my Blade Dancer* was standing on a 15' high house, with a giant in the street, next to a 45' high building. What I was going to do, until the giant was teleported, was to leap across, smack the giant upside the head (using Spring Attack), bounce off the other building, and back onto the first roof (an alternate strategy would've been to crash through a window in the building). My Tumble modifier is around +50, so the DM ruled I could do it, but the giant was teleported away before I could start beating on it. Instead, I wound up effortlessly leaping across a 20' street to smack the derro sniper who so foolishly teleported within my movement radius; if I'd rolled better, and the druid'd remembered to have his bear climb the wall, said sniper'd've been bear chow.

Brad

* - Variant of the OA class, which the DM and I came up with. Jettisons the silly spellcasting requirement and makes it much more about movement.