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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9242350" data-attributes="member: 93670">[spoiler="3.5 phb pg84"]Check: You can land softly when you fall or tumble pastopponents. You can also tumble to entertain an audience (as thoughusing the Perform skill). The DCs for various tasks involving theTumble skill are given on the table below.Tumble DC Task 15 Treat a fall as if it were 10 feet shorter than it really is when determining damage. 15 Tumble at one-half speed as part of normal  movement, provoking no attacks of opportunity  while doing so. Failure means you provoke attacks of opportunity normally. Check separately for each opponent you move past, in the order in which you pass them (player’s choice of order in case of a tie). Each additional enemy after the first adds +2 to the Tumble DC. 25 Tumble at one-half speed through an area occupied by an enemy (over, under, or around the opponent) as part of normal movement, provoking no attacks of opportunity while doing so. Failure means you stop before entering the enemy-occupied area and provoke an attack of opportunity from that enemy. Check separately for each opponent. Each additional enemy after the first adds +2 to the Tumble DC.Obstructed or otherwise treacherous surfaces, such as natural cavernfloors or undergrowth, are tough to tumble through. The DC for anyTumble check made to tumble into such a square is modified asindicated below.Surface Is . . . DC ModifierLightly obstructed (scree, light rubble, shallow bog1, +2undergrowth)Severely obstructed (natural cavern floor, dense rubble, +5dense undergrowth)Lightly slippery (wet floor) +2Severely slippery (ice sheet) +5Sloped or angled +21 Tumbling is impossible in a deep bog.Accelerated Tumbling: You try to tumble past or through enemiesmore quickly than normal. By accepting a –10 penalty on yourTumble checks, you can move at your full speed instead of one-halfyour speed.Action: Not applicable. Tumbling is part of movement, so aTumble check is part of a move action. .[/spoiler]It wss (obviously) much more useful in the past.  That changed because the relevant mechanic was stripped away when 5e switched from AoOs to OAs  but the DMG got a partial cutting room floor snippet.If you don't need to jump, it should be fairly trivial to climb over "a low obstacle" you could jump over.  I quoted the 5e  jump mechanics back in  616.  If you need to do both of those things or the low obstacle is something like a stalactite(mite?) hanging down it's the sort of old school dungeoncrawl scenario 5e does a poor job of supporting.Read the 5e jump mechanic in 616, it has a function for str athletics & dex acrobatics in it & the post I quoted there talks about using dex acrobatics for jumping..</blockquote>

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