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Message: <blockquote data-quote="McBard" data-source="post: 1426899" data-attributes="member: 14934">Heh, it was kind of hard to tell if Tatsukun was joking...but, in any event, no: you wouldn't fall down the pit in the middle of the jump.  The resolution of the leap is carried over until the next round.  The 3.5 PHB (in addition to the SRD quote in the above post) actually addresses this on page 77, second column under "Action":Now, my take on a couple of Li Shenron's other scenarios.Balance, scenario a): 1 check (that is good for 1 round) allows you to move at 1/2 speed. You can decide to burn 2 move actions after this 1 check, and thus make two 1/2 Speed moves. However, technically, it is not a "full-round action", but rather "two move actions that have taken up 1 round".Tumble:  when you decide to tumble, your Speed becomes one-half normal during that move action.  THEN, you decide how many move actions you want to burn (either one or two).  Technically, as the rule is written, it implies that, even if your move action Tumble was only used to get past one opponent, your entire move action is at 1/2 Speed.  You could, however, then "come out of your tumble" for your second move action and move at full Speed.  To illustrate, a 30 Speed tumbler has the following move action combinations as options:1) Tumble move action (15') + Tumble move action (15')2) Normal move action (30') + Tumble move action (15')3) Tumble move action (15') + Normal move action (30')I see your point, however, that the above situations often waste some of the tumbler's movement.  Instead, as a variant, you could house rule that tumbling through a square simply costs 2 squares of movement (effectively, halving your Speed *just for that square*).  This would allow, say, the 30' normal Speed tumbler to tumble through one square (costing 2 of his 6 squares) and then to "come out of the tumble" immediately after, and continue 4 squares of movement--ALL during just one move action.  This makes tumbling a bit more powerful, obviously.</blockquote>

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