Base swiming speed [Archive] - Wizards Community

Base swiming speed [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
hussey_graham
03-06-05, 04:23 PM Deos anyone know the base swimming feet for the races? I might be blind... I just can't find it/
Jayr
03-06-05, 04:37 PM 0 feet, unless said otherwise. The common races can only swim at one-quarter their land speed with a sucessful Swim check every round.
Board_Rider
03-06-05, 06:11 PM 3.5 PHB pg.. 84 has swim speeds at one-half land speed. If a swim check is failed by 4 or more....you go nowhere.Fail by 5 or more and you are under water. Moving one-half your land speed is a full round action.
Moving one-quarter your speed, as Jayr wrote, is a move acton.
MinusInnocence
03-06-05, 09:39 PM The reason most creatures don't have a listed Swim speed is because the system is set up to reward creatures with such a movement type to all sorts of bonuses. Anyone with a Swim speed still needs to be making checks every round, but they are still entitled to take 10 even when threatened; in addition, they get a +8 racial bonus to said checks under certain circumstances. They can even "Run" underwater.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
hussey_graham 03-06-05, 04:23 PM	Deos anyone know the base swimming feet for the races? I might be blind... I just can't find it/
Jayr 03-06-05, 04:37 PM	0 feet, unless said otherwise. The common races can only swim at one-quarter their land speed with a sucessful Swim check every round.
Board_Rider 03-06-05, 06:11 PM	3.5 PHB pg.. 84 has swim speeds at one-half land speed. If a swim check is failed by 4 or more....you go nowhere.Fail by 5 or more and you are under water. Moving one-half your land speed is a full round action. Moving one-quarter your speed, as Jayr wrote, is a move acton.
MinusInnocence 03-06-05, 09:39 PM	The reason most creatures don't have a listed Swim speed is because the system is set up to reward creatures with such a movement type to all sorts of bonuses. Anyone with a Swim speed still needs to be making checks every round, but they are still entitled to take 10 even when threatened; in addition, they get a +8 racial bonus to said checks under certain circumstances. They can even "Run" underwater.