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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5740957" data-attributes="member: 92305">Take advantage of a character's high skills during combat. A character with a high Bluff skill, for example, will easily pull off Feints during combat. The character with a high Tumble bonus can take advantage of the Fighting On The Run rule. The character moves partial distance to attack his foe, then uses the rest of his movement, after the attack, to put as much distance between himself and his foe as possible. The character uses his Tumble skill to avoid the normal Attack of Opportunity his foe would get upon him, and the character ends his turn avoiding face-to-face contact with his enemy. In effect, this combination allows for an attack on your enemy without your enemy getting a reprisal swing at you (if the Tumble check is made).____E____Y2____Y1____Y3____Looking at this more closely, you begin the round in position Y1, five feet from your enemy. Under the Tumble rule, you can only move half your normal distance. So, your Speed is cut down to 15'. You move five feet into position Y2, attack your enemy, then move the rest of your movement, ten feet, to position Y3. As you leave position Y2, you provoke an Attack of Opportunity from your enemy, but if you make your Tumble check, this is moot. Make the check, and you've successfully attacked your enemy without allowing him to attack you.There's a scene in the new 2011 Conan movie where Conan quickly moves towards an enemy, jumps up to kick off a column just before he reaches his foe, raises his sword high while in the air, and comes down on his enemy with a powerful blow.In game terms, Conan has used the Use The Battlefield maneuver. He used Jump or Tumble to make the maneuver, and the effect was that he got a +2 bonus to his attack roll. In essence, this can be a type of charge that does not suffer the -2 penalty to defense. The catch is that the character must be good at a skill that he can use when taking advantage of battlefield terrain. The Use The Battlefield maneuver can be used in many creative ways. Read the maneuver for different ideas.To see Conan use this maneuver I described in the movie, look a the trailer and time 1:05. Blink, and you'll miss it.<a href="http://youtu.be/o1iJZIMddpM" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/o1iJZIMddpM</a> FeintFighting On The RunUse The Battlefield</blockquote>

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