Acrobatics

[Daniel Johnson 14]

I am uncertain if this is one of the other 30 acrobatics threads I saw but I have an issue with acrobatics. It allows you to avoid AoO's as Tumble but at a higher DC (15 + BaB of your opponent). It says nothing of reducing speed by 1/2. Is this an omission or an actual change in rules? I can't really see being able to tumble as fast as you walk until you are a really skilled acrobat.

[Gailbraithe]

There hasn't been an answer on this yet, has there? Omission or rules change? Because my group needs to know.

If tumbling still reduces speed by half, I'd also like some clarification on whether it reduces it by half for the entirety of the movement, or only the spaces tumbled through. This is one of the issue in 3.5 that has never been very clear to my group. We play it as only doubling the cost to move through the spaces where you actually threaten, but I swear my reading puts it as for the entire movement.

[Gailbraithe]

Hmm. Dead silence. Not a good sign.

Does anyone know? Omission, oversight or rules change?

[ben stein]...Bulhman? ...Buhlman? ...Anyone? ...Buhlman?[/ben stein]

[Gailbraithe]

Nobody even has an opinion? Come on, I know I'm not the only one playtesting this game. Everyone keep complaining about the new Tumble DCs, aren't any of you actually using tumble in play? So...how are you handling this?

[Watcher]

Give it a little time, it is the weekend. They technically have those off, but they often work them anyway due to deadlines. They also got thousands of pages off to the printers (for GenCon) this past week.

Just give it a little time...

Guys, when you do get around to answering this, could you also verify if trip attacks with weapons do or do not provoke AOO's?

[Gailbraithe]

Watcher wrote:

Give it a little time, it is the weekend. They technically have those off, but they often work them anyway due to deadlines. They also got thousands of pages off to the printers (for GenCon) this past week.

Just give it a little time...

I wasn't expecting an official response right away...but I thought I'd at least get some completely uniformed opinions, questionably reasons assertions, and completely spurious skylarking.

Gamers, thou art disappointing me.

Though I could really use an answer by Tuesday. Tuesday is game day.

[Scotto]

I have played with a lot of different DMs using the 3.5 rules, and everyone I've met runs it where you count the squares you tumble through as double movement, not tumbling (moving full speed) in the others.
-Scott

[Crimson Jester]

As far as I have noticed this is a rule change. Making it more like Xena warrior princess where you tumble and go faster. But that's just my guess. Also IIRC Trip attacks still cause AoO.