What's tumbling?

[Zeeky Von Vepermont]

As I gathered, you use it to get past enemies / allies in combat, using acrobatics check, but the acrobatics page says nothing about it, and searching for it only brings up fast tumble. So can you guys spre more details on it?

Also what's the rules of dragging an unconscious ally in combat, away from an enemy, while I'm asking questions.

[Stockvillain]

Not sure if this is the answer you're looking for, but:
Basically, tumbling is moving around in a dextrous and / or acrobatic manner. Dodging and weaving around foes, cartwheeling, backflipping, going all Jackie-chan with ladders, chairs, open windows, and the like. Generally, you make an acrobatics [tumbling] check when you need to move uninhibited through inhibiting terrain.

As for Drag:
Drag Combat Maneuver

Hope that helps.

[glandis]

Tumbling was the 3.x skill used primarily as Acrobatics is to "Move Through Threatened Squares" here ..

Dragging is covered under the "Lifting and Dragging" section here.

EDIT: Sure enough, Ninja's are Villans - or is that Villan's are Ninja's?

[Joyd]

"Tumbling" is no longer rules terminology in Pathfinder. The entirety of the rules for what people still call tumbling because that's what the skill was called in 3.5 are covered under the "Move Through Threatened Squares" and "Cross Narrow Surfaces/Uneven Ground" sections of the Acrobatics skill. (Normally people are referring to the former use.)

You don't normally use the Drag combat manuever for moving an unconscious ally. That's for moving something that doesn't want to be moved, and it's probably going to be less efficient except in the case where you have a extremely low strength score and your ally is super heavy, or when your hands are full. An unconscious ally is generally moved like an inanimate object. In most circumstances, you'll probably be able to move the ally much further by using the "lifting and dragging" rules under Carrying Capacity.

[Stockvillain]

Muwahahaha . . .

[ZebulonXenos]

I was a bit surprised to see that the term wasn't in the description of Acrobatics, and to be fair the PRD does occasionally refer to tumbling, for example: Tumbling is impossible in a deep bog and it's called by name in the combat section. I suppose it's pretty well an orphaned term.