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, and having skill ranks in Acrobatics can help with some uses of Movement. Having the Movement skill does allow you to swim with a skill check, but it does NOT allow you to fly with a skill check 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, or, as an immediate reaction. | ||||||
| DC of Check: |
Table: Flying Maneuver DCs
You generally need only make a Fly check on calm days when you possess Lesser Flight. Without making a check, a flying creature with Lesser Flight can remain flying at the end of its turn so long as it moves a distance greater than half its speed. 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, and modified below. If a creature possesses Hover they must follow the more restrictive rules of that movement type. Note that you cannot hover in open space with only Hover, no matter how well you may roll on a Movement check. If a creature possesses Greater Flight they are not required to roll a Movement check to either fly at less than half speed or Hover in open space. If a creature possesses Greater Flight, they receive a +8 modifier on all Movement skill rolls and ignore all modifiers for winds or gusts, although they are still affected by fog, clouds, rain, snow, sleet, hail, lightning, etc. | ||||||
| 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.
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| 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? |
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, although the move action itself will often provoke. | ||||||
| Avoid Falling
You are not considered flat-footed while using Hover, Lesser Flight, or Greater Flight. If you take damage while flying using any of these movement abilities, you lose ten feet of altitude at the bottom of the round. In addition, you must make a DC 10 Fly check(modified by conditions, see below) to avoid falling. This descent does not provoke an attack of opportunity and does not count against a creature's movement. This means that sufficient attacks can force any flying creature to the ground eventually.
If you are using Hover, Lesser Flight, or Greater Flight to fly and you collide with an object equal to your size or larger (whether you initiate the collision or or struck by the object or creature), you must immediately make a DC 25 Fly check(modified by conditions, see below) to avoid plummeting to the ground, taking the appropriate falling damage for your flight type. Your own size modifier does not apply to this roll, since the rarity of finding something bigger then size Titanic to crash into is its own advantage.
If you are falling and have the ability to use Lesser Flight, you can make a DC 10 Fly check(modified by conditions, see below) to attempt to start flying in mid-fall and negate the damage. You cannot make this check if you are falling due to a failed Fly check (caused by combat or any other source) or a collision. See Falling Damage if you fail this check. | |
| Action Required: |
Part of a Move Action, or, Immediate Reaction |
| DC of Check: |
Varies, see above. |
| 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.
Size Tiny or smaller, -4, Size Small or Medium, +0, Size Large +4, Size Huge +10, Size Gargantuan +20, Size Colossal +30, Size Titanic +40. |
| Take 10? / Take 20? |
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| Allows Assists? |
{{{Assist}}} |
| Results of Success |
{{{Success}}} |
| Consequences of Failure |
Falling |
| Retry Allowed? |
No. You may attempt a Movement check once per mishap. |
| Provokes AOO? |
No |
| Move in a liquid without the proper Move score
Movement is used to move around in liquids, such as water, blood, alcohol, lava, etc. The movement skill conveys no protection against the liquid (such as drowning, burning, the ick factor of swimming in blood, etc). Most movement checks in a liquid are used to swim on the surface, where there is air to breathe. If you do not need to breathe, and can withstand any environmental effects of the fluid, you may make Movement skill rolls to move in any direction below the surface. Make a Movement check once per round while you are in the liquid. Success means you may swim at up to half your base land speed (as a full-round action) or at a quarter of your speed (as a move action). If you fail by 4 or less, you make no progress. If you fail by 5 or more, you go under the surface if you were attempting to stay on the surface to breathe. If you are under the surface, either because you failed a Movement check or because you are swimming under the surface intentionally, you must hold your breath. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to twice your Constitution score, but only if you do nothing other than take move actions or free actions. If you take a standard action or a full-round action (such as making an attack), the remainder of the duration for which you can hold your breath is reduced by 1 round. (Effectively, a character in combat can hold his breath only half as long as normal.) After that period of time, you must make a DC 10 Constitution check every round to continue holding your breath. Each round, the DC for that check increases by 1. If you fail the Constitution check, you begin to drown. The DC for the Movement check depends on the water, as given on the table below. {{!: Table: Swim DC's
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| Action Required: |
Move action | ||||||||
| DC of Check: |
Varies | ||||||||
| Modifiers to Check |
Opaque Fluids below the surface +10, Dense Fluids at the surface -10, Dense Fluids under the surface +10, Acid, Lava, other damaging fluids you cannot resist +20, viscous fluids (tar, honey, blood) +5 to +30 Violent gusts at surface +10, rain, snow, sleet at surface, +5 each, Hail at surface +10, massive hail at surface +20, strong currents +5, violent currents +10, vortexes, riptides, whirlpools, rapids, +20, small falls +30, large falls +40, cataracts +50. Note that many modifiers are cumulative! Trying to swim up a cataract of lava you cannot resist while staying under the surface is challenging even to high Epic adventurers. | ||||||||
| Take 10? / Take 20? |
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| Allows Assists? |
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| Results of Success |
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| Consequences of Failure |
No progress, hold breath or drown | ||||||||
| Retry Allowed? |
Next round. | ||||||||
| Provokes AOO? |
No, but the move action often provokes. | ||||||||
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| Take 10? / Take 20? |
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| Allows Assists? |
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| Results of Success |
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