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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PolterGhost" data-source="post: 5256025" data-attributes="member: 92697">It's fairly simple, if you take the text literally.Firstly, when they say "For each additional enemy", this means moving through multiple squares occupied by enemies, no matter where they are on the field.Second, when against a single enemy, the DC25 check will allow you to move through their square, and then exit into a square adjacent without provoking AoO.  However, if you want toXXXXmove to the blue X, you'll have to rollDC15 to move out of the opponent's threatened areathenDC25 to pass into the opponent's square.You won't have to roll again to move out of the threatened white X into the blue X since you already passed the DC15 check.(House Rule Territory: I'd rule that DC25 is more than enough to handle this)Now, if you wanted to do a more complicated maneuver likeXXXXXXtravel past two opponents to the blue X, here's how it would work (if you were going in a perfectly straight line):DC15 to move out of first Red X's threat zone.DC25 to move into first Red X's square.Move into white X.DC17 to move out of second Red X's threat zone.DC27 to move into second Red X's square.Move into white X.Move into blue X.(House Rule Territory: I don't see the point behind rolling more than once.  The way we do turns when we play is that you declare exactly where you move and who you move past (or through in the case of Tumble) so that you only ever need one single check to see where you pass or fail.  So if you did the above situation and rolled a 26 on a single Tumble roll after declaring "I'm moving through both opponent's squares to reach the blue X", you would pass into the first white X, stop there, and then provoke AoO from the second red X.  It puts much less of a chance of skill failure at the cost of having to rely on one really good roll to put you through, which is near negligible in the first place.)The one portion of the rules that the DC15 has that the DC25 doesn't is"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)."The way this is worded ("Check separately...in the order in which you pass them") makes it sound like it works partly like the house rules above, where you decide exactly where you path your turn in advance (which I'm fairly certain is a standard D&D rule to begin with.)  It essentially lets you choose who you let AoO you if you fail a Tumble check, but this is an entirely tangential matter.And for one last exampleXXXXthis situation.  It may not seem too much of an issue, but here's how the turn would go for this:DC15 to move out of first red X's threatened area.DC25 to move into first red X's square.DC17 to move out of second red X's threatened area.DC27 to move into second red X's square.Move into blue X.</blockquote>

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