D&D 5E Reasonable Movement and Athletic Feats?

[doctorbadwolf]

Here's what you do: take the rules about jumping, and solve for the gravity of the planet to make those rules reasonable. Done!

Totally comparable to pushing results into fairly low level competitive real world people numbers!

 

[DND_Reborn]

Well, what if we reduce the base calculation first? Or reduce the multiplication. I don’t have much idea what it should be, tbh.

Also, what about sprinting? You can’t really all out sprint in 5e during combat or anything other than a chase, and most other DMs IME dont allow increasing speed or bypassing difficult terrain with skill Checks. Maybe it would be less intimidating for them if there was a simple system to reference for these fairly common feats of athleticism?

This is why the earlier edition (2E IIRC) allowed different movement speeds as multiples of base speed and were better equipped than 5E in that respect. We have house-rules for running and sprinting as well. If you look at the calculations for a move + dash of 60 feet, that equates to 6.8 mph roughly, or a brisk jog (double-time).

Unless you have a class feature (e.g. Cunning Action), there is no way to "run" or triple your movement, or "sprint" which would be quadruple movement.

A "simple" house-rule would be something like this:

Run. When you take the dash action, you can use your bonus action to attempt to increase your movement again. You make a DC 5 Strength (Athletics) check. If you succeed, you gain additional movement equal to your speed, after applying any modifiers. The DC increases by 5 for each addition turn you run. If you spend one round without moving, the DC resets to 5.

Sprint. When you take the dash action, you can use your bonus action to attempt to increase your movement again. You make a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check. If you succeed, you gain additional movement equal to twice your speed, after applying any modifiers. The DC increases by 5 for each addition turn you sprint. When you fail a check, you must spend a number of rounds equal to the number of rounds you spent sprinting using only your movement and no dash or run.

That is the basic idea. Tweak as desired.

 

[Garthanos]

This is why the earlier edition (2E IIRC) allowed different movement speeds as multiples of base speed and were better equipped than 5E in that respect. We have house-rules for running and sprinting as well. If you look at the calculations for a move + dash of 60 feet, that equates to 6.8 mph roughly, or a brisk jog (double-time).

Unless you have a class feature (e.g. Cunning Action), there is no way to "run" or triple your movement, or "sprint" which would be quadruple movement.

A "simple" house-rule would be something like this:

Run. When you take the dash action, you can use your bonus action to attempt to increase your movement again. You make a DC 5 Strength (Athletics) check. If you succeed, you gain additional movement equal to your speed, after applying any modifiers. The DC increases by 5 for each addition turn you run. If you spend one round without moving, the DC resets to 5.

Sprint. When you take the dash action, you can use your bonus action to attempt to increase your movement again. You make a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check. If you succeed, you gain additional movement equal to twice your speed, after applying any modifiers. The DC increases by 5 for each addition turn you sprint. When you fail a check, you must spend a number of rounds equal to the number of rounds you spent sprinting using only your movement and no dash or run.

That is the basic idea. Tweak as desired.

Hmmm do you have any thoughts on well the increased risk in a combat environment or only making the action check to avoid the increased risk on the first one (not sure what I mean just trying to inspire)

 

[Garthanos]

Long distance running is an arena humans actually excel (we can outrun horses and the like in context) assuming that can be visualized well enough with just con attribute checks. (with exhaustion mixed in)

 

[Son of the Serpent]

outside of extreme heat and assuming neither has any extra weight carried we can even follow camels until they fall over dead.

humans are the arch persistence predator.

 

[Garthanos]

outside of extreme heat and assuming neither has any extra weight carried we can even follow camels until they fall over dead.

humans are the arch persistence predator.

With pretty damn good acceleration based spring attacks too... we are apex predator period and not all of it is from brains.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

i expect elves and orcs would be similar but just with an even longer endurance (possibly only true for orcs if we assume some carry weight.)

just a guess though.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

With pretty damn good acceleration based spring attacks too... we are apex predator period and not all of it is from brains.

our punches, kicks, clubbings, and rock throwing capabilities are considered among the deadliest of natural weapons. and yes. i know the latter two involve tools, but i consider them effectively natural weapons (our bodies are literally adapted to the point of having completely different posture partially for these exact purposes and we require no special modification of the objects in our environment to use them. its just like when you see a gorrilla use a broken off tree trunk as a club. also yes. they do that.).

 

[Garthanos]

Stories like Gilgamesh and Lord of the Rings actually feature heroic manifestations of those kinds of abilities really. Also seen in Beowulf but applied with even more exaggeration LOL

 

[Son of the Serpent]

he tore through the magical armor of grendel by ripping his arm off didn't he?