Acrobatics and attack of opportunity

[Laik]

Can't see anything about Acrobatics (tumble through or other uses)used to avoid attacks of opportunity when moving in enemies reach.

Is it WAI? No skill-based way to avoid attacks of opportunity any more?

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

Correct. AFAIK the Rogue feat Mobility is the only good way to avoid AoOs.

(What's "WAI"?)

[The Narration]

One of the uses of Acrobatics is "Tumble Through" which lets you move through an enemy square (but no mention of past it) and says that it triggers an Attack of Opportunity on a failure, which seems to imply that it doesn't on a success. If so, it really needs to be rewritten to make that more explicit.

If you can go through an enemy square, then it seems reasonable to assume that you can go past it, but it doesn't actually say that anywhere in the rules.

[Laik]

Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:

(What's "WAI"?)

WAI = working as intended.

Thanks for your answer!

[Laik]

The Narration wrote:

One of the uses of Acrobatics is "Tumble Through" which lets you move through an enemy square (but no mention of past it) and says that it triggers an Attack of Opportunity on a failure, which seems to imply that it doesn't on a success. If so, it really needs to be rewritten to make that more explicit.

If you can go through an enemy square, then it seems reasonable to assume that you can go past it, but it doesn't actually say that anywhere in the rules.

Indeed, very ambiguous wording here, as if the rules were edited a few times and we see chunks of several versions in the same time. Hope there are going to be some clarifications on that.

[Joey Cote]

Laik wrote:

The Narration wrote:

One of the uses of Acrobatics is "Tumble Through" which lets you move through an enemy square (but no mention of past it) and says that it triggers an Attack of Opportunity on a failure, which seems to imply that it doesn't on a success. If so, it really needs to be rewritten to make that more explicit.

If you can go through an enemy square, then it seems reasonable to assume that you can go past it, but it doesn't actually say that anywhere in the rules.

Indeed, very ambiguous wording here, as if the rules were edited a few times and we see chunks of several versions in the same time. Hope there are going to be some clarifications on that.

We had this come up. Without that line "on a failure triggers a reaction" then it could be argued that since the character didn't actually move into the opponent's space due to failing the tumble through action then he doesn't provoke a reaction because he didn't technically leave his starting square. That line is intended to stop that argument before it happens.

[JoelF847]

This came up last night in our playtest at the end of part 1. Was very disappointed my rogue couldn't tumble to avoid an attack of opportunity. Seemed extremely odd that the only way to avoid an AOO was 5' steps (and at level 1 not even my rogue could possibly have mobility).