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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 7788174" data-attributes="member: 82504">An acrobat can reduce the damage of his fall in 4e using an acrobatics check (is it aiming at a softer spot? is it bouncing off the walls to slow your descent? is landing on your feet like a cat? ) is it catching the ally and both going down with them taking no damage because you are carrying them and landing in a comfortable way... the idea is to aid your ally in similar manner to what you are doing with acrobatics (OR perhaps it was a fighter who does climbing using athletics he might last second lasso them with his climbing gear ) so they go down slower.   Regardless of what it is we get a just say no masked as that is too epic It will step on the toes of a casters - and its coincidentally similar in effect to a feather fall.In 4e I might create a level 2 skill power and call it Flying Rescue and allow the acrobat to as a reaction shift next to and use his standard trained skill to reduce the damage of a falling ally (could even be seen as diving downwards and catching them)  entirely within paradigm and in no bloody way too powerful.,Neat part in 4e I am free to describe how things work the way I want to. Or make it different depending on "where" we are falling and what the environment is like</blockquote>