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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 7481580" data-attributes="member: 467"><p>But there is nothing in the rules that says that the character making the Strength (Athletics) check to jump an unusually long distance (a thing explicitly allowed by the rules) needs to come up with some convoluted explanation for how they are going to do so. Literally all they have to do is "I use Strength (Athletics) to jump an extra 5 feet" and your job is to assign a difficulty to that roll. Now, a player may say that they are going to find an outcropping in order to give them just a few more inches of height to try and clear the distance, or that they are going to use their spear as a pole vault or whatever it is, but none of those things are required by the rules. Your assertion that they can't simply make the roll against your prescribed DC is is what I take issue with. You may play it that way, of course, but doing so, IMO, puts an undo burden on a player who just wanted to make a nimble, athletic character that could jump, swim and climb better than others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 7481580, member: 467"] But there is nothing in the rules that says that the character making the Strength (Athletics) check to jump an unusually long distance (a thing explicitly allowed by the rules) needs to come up with some convoluted explanation for how they are going to do so. Literally all they have to do is "I use Strength (Athletics) to jump an extra 5 feet" and your job is to assign a difficulty to that roll. Now, a player may say that they are going to find an outcropping in order to give them just a few more inches of height to try and clear the distance, or that they are going to use their spear as a pole vault or whatever it is, but none of those things are required by the rules. Your assertion that they can't simply make the roll against your prescribed DC is is what I take issue with. You may play it that way, of course, but doing so, IMO, puts an undo burden on a player who just wanted to make a nimble, athletic character that could jump, swim and climb better than others. [/QUOTE]
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