Tumble Through around corners?

[blammit]

RAW, it SEEMS like tumble through works around a physical corner. Given how attacks work, it doesn't seem like a Tumble Through action should work at a direct 90 degree angle around a corner. How should this actually be interpreted?

[HammerJack]

Coukd you explain what you think the issue is more fully?? What do attacks have to do with this and what is the reason for thinking a corner would be an issue? Nothing about Tumble Through requires straight line movement.

[The Gleeful Grognard]

If you mean that you can move in a non linear path while tumbling, absolutely. If successful, the tumble through action allows you to move through a single hostile space during a stride action (which the tumble through action grants) but does not limit that stride to a straight line.

If you mean to say that tumble through allows you to move through solid objects on a diagonal, then I would disagree and would say that so do the rules (citing the cover/object section).

Remember, moving diagonally does not mean you are teleporting and not moving through the spaces you clip while you are moving on a diagonal. It is intentionally left up to GM ruling when it comes to objects, if the GM decides there is enough space you can do it, if they decide there isn't you cannot.

[HammerJack]

Well yes, obviously the same restrictions that apply to any Stride apply. That wasn't how I was reading the question.

Was that what it was supposed to mean?

[HumbleGamer]

I think he means that a character next to a corner attacking another one next to the other side of the corner would suffer from cover.

And given the cover he wonders Whether a character could stride diagonally from the first side of the corner to the other side.

[Claxon]

Yeah, I take the question as referring to the corner of a wall, in which case no. You can't move through a solid object.

[HumbleGamer]

Claxon wrote:

Yeah, I take the question as referring to the corner of a wall, in which case no. You can't move through a solid object.

I second this.

[HammerJack]

My take on what the question meant was basically this:

KEY

W = wall
E = enemy
P = PC
D = Destination
B = Blank Square

DIAGRAM 1

WWWWW
WWDEW
WwWPW
WWwBw
WWwBW

I figured that the intent was for the PC to move north and then west to get to the destination as part if a Tumble Through action, not to Stride directly northwest to the destination because a question about Striding through a corner wouldn't involve the Tumble Through action at all.

WWWWW
WDEBW
WWWPW
WwWBW
WwWBW

If we instead use diagram 2, a Tumble through could still clearly go north, west and west again to reach the destination.

*Edited repeatedly because this forum eats formatting.

[blammit]

HammerJack wrote:

I figured that the intent was for the PC to move north and then west to get to the destination as part if a Tumble Through action, not to Stride directly northwest to the destination because a question about Striding through a corner wouldn't involve the Tumble Through action at all.

If we instead use diagram 2, a Tumble through could still clearly go north, west and west again to reach the destination.

This clears it up, thank you.