Which check to leap onto a character?

[LucyG92]

What check would a diminutive creature need to jump from a ledge and land on a creature below, accurately, if any?

[Val'bryn2]

It would be standard movement, an acrobatics check to get to the square you want to fall on. What's the goal?

[Mysterious Stranger]

Depending on what you are trying to do it may also require another sort of roll. A climbing roll may be needed if you want to remain on him. If you are trying to do something to him that may fall under the combat maneuver dirty trick. But the acrobatics roll is what you need to land on him. If you want to avoid being noticed a stealth roll is also probably needed.

[LucyG92]

Val'bryn2 wrote:

It would be standard movement, an acrobatics check to get to the square you want to fall on. What's the goal?

Thanks. The goal is a surprise attack from above.

[Brother Fen]

Moving into the opponent's square would provoke an Attack of Opportunity.

[Val'bryn2]

Unless it's done as the surprise attack when the target's flatfooted, unless it has combat reflexes.

As for staying on the target, I would say that's more a grapple check than anything else.

[TheZombiePunch]

The Vexing Dodger might be something you'd be interested in.

[Drahliana Moonrunner]

LucyG92 wrote:

What check would a diminutive creature need to jump from a ledge and land on a creature below, accurately, if any?

1.Stealth check, opposed by the target's Perception check. If there are people around the target, they get a Perception check as well.

2. Fly, or Acrobatics check as appropriate.