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Kazzaroth Pan'theon 09-12-05, 07:38 AM	I ended up a serious arguement whit a player about this issue. But is there anywhere official ruling, wich says directly yes or no, that creature wich have used magic (spell, potion or item) to able to fly, being able to tumble to avoid AoO because of reach? Imagine that a warrior wich flies towards another warrior (who flies also) whit spiked chain and henceworth more agile warrior who wants get close whitout AoO tumbles in air. Can the approaching flying warrior do so (and HAS been ruled it can do or cannot do).
lordsloth 09-12-05, 08:28 AM	I would say yes. Tumbling is a part of movement and flight (magic or otherwise) is a movement so imho you could tumble as part of flight / climb / swim whatever. Maybe you could (DM rule, not RAW as far as i know) impose penalties on modes of movement that a character is unacustomed to. I would imagine a warrior is not used to tumbling in the air, while those bird people from races of the wild (i forget name) would be. Again this is just a rule you could impose if you wanted to be a strict DM .. theres no need to actually do it ;)
masterofmayhem 09-12-05, 11:16 AM	Yes, he can. The official rule is in the tumble skill description. It says nothing about not being able to do so, so you can. Flight (magical or otherwise) is still movement. There is no reason you can't tumble (logic and rule wise). Think of it as aerial flips, dives, and spins used to avoid being attacked.
evangelion1010 09-12-05, 04:14 PM	Yes, you can still do it. There are no penalties written in the books, but if you check out the 'rules of the game section', they have a 5 part series about various aerial maneuvers, in which they assign a penalty/bonus to tumbling based on maneuverability.
Kazzaroth Pan'theon 09-15-05, 07:05 PM	Thank you for giving replies and advices :). I think arguement is (hopefully) solved.