Falling on creatures hurts you more than it hurts them?

[Mergy]

Just noticed this about falling on another creature. In most cases they'll take between a quarter to half of the falling damage you take. So we don't have the following tropes:

- Jumping on someone as an ambush (you take more damage and also fall prone)
- Having a bigger creature break your fall (you take the same amount of damage you would have normally)

Another interesting wrinkle is with Cat Fall, because creatures only take damage if the falling creature takes damage. So much for the rogue dropping from the chandelier example in the book.

[Byron Zibeck]

This is a violation of Newton's third law.

[Mnemaxa]

Is it not because falling on someone is different than jumping on them?

[Traiel]

I did see this (and did laugh at catfall's stupidity at legendary :P ) and I was sad.

[Mergy]

Mnemaxa wrote:

Is it not because falling on someone is different than jumping on them?

As far as I can tell, jumping and falling both cause you to take the same amount of damage.