======Acrobatics (Dex, Trained Only)======

You can flip, dive, roll, tumble, and perform other acrobatic maneuvers, and you|re also adept at keeping your balance under difficult circumstances.

**Check:** Make an Acrobatics check (DC 25) to move through a space occupied by an opponent or obstacle (moving over, under, or around). A failed roll means you don|t get past the obstacle.

- //Balancing:// You can walk on a precarious surface. A successful check lets you move at half your speed along the surface as a move action. A failure indicates you spend your move action just keeping your balance and do not move. A failure by 5 or more means you fall. The difficulty varies with the conditions of the surface.

While balancing, you lose your dodge bonus to Defense unless you have 5 or more ranks in Acrobatics. If you take damage while balancing, make an immediate Acrobatics check to avoid falling.

||**Surface**||**DC**||
||More than 12 in. wide||5||
||7-12 in. wide||10||
||2-6 in. wide||15||
||Less than 2 in. wide||20||
||Uneven or angled||+5||
||Slippery||+5||


- //Accelerated Movement:// You can try to move faster than normal while balancing. You can move your full speed, but take a -5 penalty on your Acrobatics check. Moving twice your speed requires two checks, one for each move action.

- //Jumping:// You can make an Acrobatics check to extend the distance you can jump (see Jumping, page 34) by 1 foot per point your check exceeds DC 15.

- //Falling:// You can make an Acrobatics check (DC 5) to lessen damage from a fall. Subtract the amount your roll exceeds the DC from the distance of a fall in feet before determining damage. So an Acrobatics check of 20 (15 more than the DC) reduces the effective distance of a fall by 15 feet. A fall reduced to 0 distance does no damage and you land on your feet. You can reduce knockback damage in the same way (see Knockback, page 165).

- //Avoiding Being Tripped:// You can make an Acrobatics check in place of the Strength or Dexterity check to avoid a trip attack (see Trip, page 159). You cannot use Acrobatics to make trip attacks, however.

- //Instant Up:// You can make an Acrobatics check (DC 20) to stand from a prone position as a free action rather than a move action.

- //Performance:// You can use Acrobatics as an [[MMExpertise Expertise]] skill to impress an audience.

**Try Again:** No.
**Action:** Free. If you actually move as part of your Acrobatics check, then it counts as part of your move action.
**Special:** The balancing aspects of Acrobatics can be used untrained.

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