Movement
- Ability Score Used: Strength
- Usable Untrained? Yes
- Armor Check Penalty Applies? Yes
You are skilled at large, powerful movements to orient your own body in space. This encompasses flying, swimming, and forcing your way into and through the spaces occupied by other creatures. "Movement" is a powerful, large-scale, athletic skill that encompasses your ability to control your own body and how you are positioned. Note that this is NOT Acrobatics, which is large, powerful movements to move yourself through space. Note that the two skills are similar. Having the Movement skill does allow you to swim with a skill check, but it does NOT allow you to fly in normal gravity and atmosphere conditions. Movement does not give you either a Swim move score or a Fly move score.
| You are able to perform skillful maneuvers and fly competently, remaining oriented, able to fight, and airborne | |||||||||||||
| Action Required: |
Part of a Move action | ||||||||||||
| DC of Check: |
Table: Flying Maneuver DCs
You generally need only make a Fly check when you are attempting a complex maneuver. Without making a check, a flying creature can remain flying at the end of its turn so long as it moves a distance greater than half its speed. It can also turn up to 45 degrees by sacrificing 5 feet of movement, can rise at half speed at an angle of 45 degrees1, and can descend at any angle at normal speed. Note that these restrictions only apply to movement taken during your current turn. At the beginning of the next turn, you can move in a different direction than you did the previous turn without making a check. Taking any action that violates these rules requires a Fly check. The difficulty of these maneuvers varies depending upon the maneuver you are attempting, as noted on the chart. | ||||||||||||
| Modifiers to Check |
Clear, calm skies: +5, clear air or calm air +0, Windy conditions, -5, Strong winds, -10, hurricane-force winds -20, erratic gusts -10, violent gusts -20, fog or mist -5, opaque clouds -10, dark clouds -20, rain, snow, and/or sleet, -5 each, hail -10, massive hail -20, lightning visible -5, lightning close -10, inside a lightning storm, -20. Note that many/most of the modifiers are cumulative! A hurricane is a different environment than a thunderhead, but both are very difficult to fly through. | ||||||||||||
| Take 10? / Take 20? |
{{{Take10-Take20}}} | ||||||||||||
| Allows Assists? |
{{{Assist}}} | ||||||||||||
| Results of Success |
{{{Success}}} | ||||||||||||
| Consequences of Failure |
Falling | ||||||||||||
| Retry Allowed? |
Varies. You can attempt a Fly check to perform the same maneuver on subsequent rounds. If you are using wings and you fail a Fly check by 5 or more, you plummet to the ground, taking the appropriate falling damage. | ||||||||||||
| Provokes AOO? |
No | ||||||||||||
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| DC of Check: | |
| Modifiers to Check | |
| Take 10? / Take 20? |
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| Allows Assists? |
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| Results of Success |
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| Consequences of Failure | |
| Retry Allowed? | |
| Provokes AOO? | |
| Action Required: | |
| DC of Check: | |
| Modifiers to Check | |
| Take 10? / Take 20? |
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| Allows Assists? |
{{{Assist}}} |
| Results of Success |
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| Consequences of Failure | |
| Retry Allowed? | |
| Provokes AOO? | |