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<blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 1872321" data-attributes="member: 17296">But you can't *charge*. And that's the question being posed: &quot;Can one jump during a charge?&quot; (Wait, can you charge while flying? I don't know, never checked. But it's not really stretching the scenario that much to imagine boots of haste for a melee character. How many people are going to charge someone when they're completely naked?)OK, fine, leave the boots out of it. That's still +27 to the jump check, naked, with a +0 to the relevant ability. It would still be possible to make a dc 40 jump check as meantioned in the above scenario. You'll have to roll a 13, so there's only a 40% chance of sucess. But that's much greater than 0%, and therefore firmly in the realm of possibility. Sure, sure, I admit that it's not always *easy* to do. And if you fail the check you certainly can't. But I think that you can feel free to try. Besides, it doesn't have to be a 5 x5 table. It could be two foot high and it'd still stop a charge without a jump check. Which would mean it could stop a charge if a jump check can't compensate. For that matter, as meantioned above, it could be 10 foot wide and 10 foot deep instead of 5 foot wide and 5 foot high. That'll stop a charge too. It's the same rule either way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ARandomGod, post: 1872321, member: 17296"] But you can't *charge*. And that's the question being posed: "Can one jump during a charge?" (Wait, can you charge while flying? I don't know, never checked. But it's not really stretching the scenario that much to imagine boots of haste for a melee character. How many people are going to charge someone when they're completely naked?) OK, fine, leave the boots out of it. That's still +27 to the jump check, naked, with a +0 to the relevant ability. It would still be possible to make a dc 40 jump check as meantioned in the above scenario. You'll have to roll a 13, so there's only a 40% chance of sucess. But that's much greater than 0%, and therefore firmly in the realm of possibility. Sure, sure, I admit that it's not always *easy* to do. And if you fail the check you certainly can't. But I think that you can feel free to try. Besides, it doesn't have to be a 5 x5 table. It could be two foot high and it'd still stop a charge without a jump check. Which would mean it could stop a charge if a jump check can't compensate. For that matter, as meantioned above, it could be 10 foot wide and 10 foot deep instead of 5 foot wide and 5 foot high. That'll stop a charge too. It's the same rule either way. [/QUOTE]

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