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harpy
2011-02-17, 08:54 AM
How do you do this?

Situation:

You're standing in front of a bottomless crevasse that is 20' in width. On the other side of it you have a cliff face that rises 20' above your height. You can make a running start.

What is the Acrobatics DC for jumping across the 20' crevasse, but also clearing that 20' of height?

It would be great if the game had a parabolic arc DC chart.

lesser_minion
2011-02-17, 09:05 AM
The last time I saw any rules for this was in 3.0, where the maximum height reached in a long jump was assumed to be one quarter of the horizontal distance cleared, and you reach it at the halfway point.

Applying that here, you'd need 30' of space before the edge of the crevasse, a base land speed of 45', and it would take a DC 80 check.

Note that it should be a DC 45 Climb check to grab hold of the opposite wall following a jump. That may be a better option.

FelixG
2011-02-17, 09:58 AM
if you have open ground to get a running start the long jump DC is 20...

the high jump is 80 though, so you could safely assume that the DC for the whole deal is 80

Curmudgeon
2011-02-17, 12:47 PM
All uses of Jump that aren't vertical operate the same in D&D: your maximum height is ¼ the horizontal distance. So you'll need DC 80 to make that 20' at the high point, and 60' of clear space (20' run-up plus 40' horizontally to get to the high point in the air). You'll end your jump right at the usual halfway point.