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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 7461947" data-attributes="member: 17607">This is a great point.The rules do say that you can "cover a number of feet up to your Strength score if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump." (BR, p.64, emphasis mine) Otherwise, you're presumed to be making a standing long jump and can only get half that distance.However, there is nothing explicit in the jump rule that says the 10 foot run has to be in the same round as the jump, only that the 10 foot run has to "immediately" precede the jump. So if a character ends one turn by moving at least 10 feet, it's reasonable to argue that this counts for the "immediate" 10 foot run needed to do a running long jump to start the next turn, since (as you note elsewhere) the characters don't perceive the turn order as 'I do this then wait six seconds before I do that'. Even better, this leaves the character with a full movement allowance to get maximum distance on the jump.A DM could rule that "immediately before" means "in the same round as" -- I know I've done that without realizing it in the past -- but it's not strictly required by the rule we're discussing here.Good catch.--Pauper</blockquote>