D&D 5E Running away...

[vlysses]

You only get one action, and up to one bonus action, each round. If you've already used your bonus action (but not your action - maybe you needed to cast Healing Word) then you would be unable to do this tumble thing if it required a bonus action.

yes, thanks, that makes sense of course - I'm still not entirely in the right 5E frame of mind...

You are not remembering the rules accurately. In Pathfinder, the DC to move through an enemy's space was 5 + CMD, so it scaled with pretty much everyone. To contrast, it doesn't necessarily scale in 5E, because Bounded Accuracy means your bonus doesn't increase with level unless it's something you're specifically good at.

correct, that was probably 3.5E... in any case I remember my monk weaving very easily through any battlefield control challenge... ;-)

 

[The Crimson Binome]

yes, thanks, that makes sense of course - I'm still not entirely in the right 5E frame of mind...

One of my pet peeves with 5E is when they say "until you take a short rest or a long rest". Since there's never a case where you gain a benefit from a short rest, without being able to gain that benefit from a long rest, they could have saved three or four words in every sentence if they'd just said once that you always gain the benefits of a short rest whenever you gain the benefit of a long rest.

They could have done that with action economy, too. They could have said that you could use an action to do anything that requires a bonus action to do. But they didn't, so they're stuck with this clunky language.