Jumping with your hands

[Ravingdork]

If you were in a position in which you needed to jump a distance, but did not have the use of your feet (such as when dangling by your hands), how do the rules expect us to run that or, in the absence of such rules, how might you expect to run this corner case?

I'm imagining something like a rock climber hanging from the underside of a rock overhang by their hands and needing to jump to a nearby cliff face. Like in those Tom Cruise movies (Or maybe it was Sylvester Stallone? Whatever.) or any number of video games with widely spread "jungle gym" elements.

[Finoan]

For a rules answer:

I would consider that to be a justification for using a Level-based DC for a Jump check instead of a Simple DC.

From there it is just a matter of GM adjudication of the DC based on circumstances. The rules don't give much more guidance than that for such things. It is up to the table to decide how likely they want this to succeed.

[shroudb]

for me it also totally depends on the actual circumstances, like, the rock climber example you gave, hanging from a rock and jumping to the next rock... i would say that would be part of the climb check overall.

on a dangling from a rope and swinging sort of scenario, i might call for an acrobatics check, and etc.

[Mathmuse]

I prefer simplicity that avoids an excessive number of die rolls. The character can push off the rock wall with their legs, so they can jump. Or they can pump their legs like on a playground swing for momentum if hanging from a rope. If their destination is only 10 feet away, they can Leap. They will need an Athletics check for Grab an Edge to grab onto their destination rock wall.

On the other hand, they cannot use Long Jump because they cannot Stride 10 feet--unless they have Quick Jump. A quick Long Jump has its own Athletics check for distance.