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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friend of the Dork" data-source="post: 5679568" data-attributes="member: 91954">¨Thanks for the link, didnt realize that. It seems my ruling last night was consistent with the update (and 3.5 more or less). For multiple opponents - both my book and the link says clearly there is +2 per enemy beyond the first. There is no mention if there is one or more rolls, but I agree it is more elegant to demand one roll to beat the all, and I suppose I can track the +5 DC for moving through separately. 8. This is where I am still uncertain. If they wanted only the actual squares tumbled through to reduce movement they could have written "count as difficult terrain, or simply "the square(s) tumbled through takes 2 squares of movement per square". Instead they wrote "when moving in this way"... ah figures. In my game I don't want it too easy to dance around the battlefield ignoring enemies like in 3.5, but I don't want it impossible for rogues to get their flanking either. So essentially they should be able to get behind someone if not too far away, but tumbling through a line of soldiers should be very difficult.Edit: Oh I found the paragraph on multiple opponents: Acrobatics: How does Acrobatics (Core Rulebook, page 87) work when you use it to avoid attacks of opportunity? When do you make checks? How many do you make? Acrobatics allows you to make checks to move through the threatened area of foes without provoking attacks of opportunity. You must make a check the moment you attempt to leave a square threatened by an enemy, but only once per foe. The DC (which is based of the Combat Maneuver Defense of each foe), increases by +2 for each foe after the first in one round. The DC also increases by +5 if you attempt to move through a foe. In the case of moving out of the threatened square of two foes at the same time, the moving character decides which check to make first.So it seems by RAW it is once per foe, with cumulative +2 DC after the first. This makes it almost impossible to tumble past many foes unless you have skill mastery Acrobatics - sooner or later you will roll low. The only advantage is that the tumbler decides which one to roll first. I might do the "one roll to rule them all" anyway as a house rule, simply to prevent excessive rolling, but also to give the rogue a chance.</blockquote>

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