Move thru Enemies square and Failled Acrobatics checks


Rules Questions


What happens if you fail an acrobatics check when trying to move through an enemies square? Do you count as not moving? Do you provoke an AOO for trying to leave a threatened space?

And could someone provide a page reference for support.

Thanks.

The Exchange

The check is to avoid the attack of opportunity, but regardless of the result you move through the squares.


If you fail to move through someone's square, you don't move through their square and take an attack of opportunity for your persistence.

The check isn't to avoid an attack of opportunity, it's to move through their space in the first place.


Pathfinder Rulebook Subscriber

From the Unofficial Pathfinder FAQ Tim Shadow so happily assembles:

d20pfsrd.com wrote:

Acrobatics(3/26/10)

Q: If a character fails an Acrobatics (tumble) check when attempting to move through an opponents square, are they stopped, or do they get through and suffer an AoO?
A: (James Jacobs 3/26/10) If you fail an Acrobatics check to move through an opponent's square, you stop in the square you were left to make the attempt to go through that creature's square and your movement for that turn ends. If that square is occupied (say, you ran through three wererats in a narrow tunnel only to fail on the fourth), you fall prone in that square. If you have any more move actions left in a turn, you could try again, of course.

You can see that (and much more info) here.

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