How fast do you fall?


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When you're falling, how many feet do you fall in a round? I saw there is information about how much damage you take and stopping a fall but nothing on how long it takes to fall?


If it's based on Earth gravity (so this may not apply at all) and going with the assumption that you are unconscious or otherwise trying to hit the ground as fast as possible, you would fall ~480 feet in the first 6 seconds, after which you are approximately at terminal velocity for a human in vertical position. Each subsequent round you would fall ~175*6 feet, so ~1050 feet.

All of this assuming that Golarion gravity is equal to Earth gravity and using my really basic understanding of physics. If you're doing some sort of spread eagle sky dive, the math changes significantly. Also, I might have just screwed up the math somewhere. Basing max speed off of Google.

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Depends, are you an American, or European swallow?


Alyran wrote:

If it's based on Earth gravity (so this may not apply at all) and going with the assumption that you are unconscious or otherwise trying to hit the ground as fast as possible, you would fall ~480 feet in the first 6 seconds, after which you are approximately at terminal velocity for a human in vertical position. Each subsequent round you would fall ~175*6 feet, so ~1050 feet.

All of this assuming that Golarion gravity is equal to Earth gravity and using my really basic understanding of physics. If you're doing some sort of spread eagle sky dive, the math changes significantly. Also, I might have just screwed up the math somewhere. Basing max speed off of Google.

Based on the math above I would call it 500ft the first round and 1000ft every round after that. So after two rounds you have hit the max damage potential. Which almost makes me think that actually looked at the math a little in determining the max damage. And really with a max of 750 it really should be a moot point for almost anything.

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