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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 1869287" data-attributes="member: 17296">An obstruction is something that slows you down. Can you do a high jump without slowing? Different people will consider different things obstructions. A house is clearly an obstruction to a human, but might not be one for a great wyrm.Similiarly a twig is a mighty obstruction to an ant, who couldn't charge you, whilst you could obviously charge him.A rat might be obstructed by a stream that you would simply charge right over. Not through, mind you. It would slow you down if you stepped in it, but you're to smart to *do* that.A dwarf fighter in full plate and slippers (isn't that a funny picture?) of spiderclimb with no ranks in jump would have to go around the long, low table. A catfolk monk wearing boots of striding and springing likely would not even notice the extra large step needed to not step in that five foot square. Obstructions are things that obstruct. You call it a *need* to jump, as if that's an effort or something. Many characters don't even need to roll the dice to clear five or ten feet of table or river or twigs in their path. Sure, the ant (or dwarf) might be envious of the other not needing to slow down. Might even not like that this thing isn't by any definition at all an obsticle. But then, the cat who's invested several skill points in jump isn't really going to like the fact that something that in no way impeeds or slows him down, at the cost of a heafty personal investment, is still a phantom obsticle... in no real way than that it arbitrarily counters all the skill points that he has spent.It might not be easier*, but it IS different. Mainly in that it's not forbidden, as changing direction clearly is.*although it actually is, have you never tried this personally? Plus it's obviously easier to some, because some people have invested skill points in it. Noone that I know of has invested skill points in changing directions in a charge. ALthough if they had I'd think it was pretty wrong of a DM to disallow it functioning (at least, after allowing the skill in the first place)! Here is a skill meant to overcome obsticles, meant to remove them from the realm of problem into the realm of nonissue. I think that saying it doesn't do this is denying the skill it's function.</blockquote>

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