Tumble and Swimming

[FleetingHeart]

We have a pretty decent history of adding functionality to different skills. Craft trap becoming engineering, the various combinations for crafting, tumble representing climbing.

Well, I'd like to suggest one more. Let tumble decrease your move speed penalty underwater. I see a lot of it on underwater flavored gear already.

So, the system would work much as it does now, only modified by tumble as well.

• A naked person with 0 or less tumble would move just as they do right now.
• A naked person with X tumble would move slightly faster. How much I leave to you guys. Maybe every 5 ranks is 5% move speed.
• A person in armor would still be effected by the weight of the armor, as they are now, with heavier armors causing greater move penalties. However, by adding positive tumble ranks they could begin to mitigate this.
• Negative tumble would have no effect in any case, since that is handled by weight.

Obviously it is still going to be extremely difficult for someone in plate to move underwater due to the severe tumble penalties they take and the shear weight of it. Just getting past that -7 penalty to get to 0 would be hard enough. To get a positive modifier would be even harder. Getting high enough tumble to swim in plate as if you were naked.....well now that would be a genuine feat.

[lovethesuit]

Climb and Swim really should be based on Strength, and not tumble.

[ScottyB]

How cute, LTS is trying to rile up the serious posters.

[Relinquish]

Give people more of a reason to go fighter/rogue >_>

[derfo]

"how serious you perceive your own post and others is privy to how significant it is despite the relevance"

also, i think the tumble idea would be pretty sweet. as an aside, i think it'd be pretty cool if there were more spells or items that increase swimming capabilities, like ironguts or readily available diving helmets for more breath time, or swimsuits for speed

[FleetingHeart]

Give people more of a reason to go fighter/rogue >_>

Only if someone is intentionally trying to PG a swimmer >.>

[FleetingHeart]

Derf, you can already wear simple clothing and move at full swim speed :-) I never understood this notion of getting naked. Clothes don't hinder you at all from what I've seen.

[derfo]

that is sort of really obviously well known, i only noted it would be cool if there were swimming specific gear for people to purchase that are more inclined to do so

[Cerberus]

With a couple bubble berries monks can almost outswim the fishes. :o

[FleetingHeart]

that is sort of really obviously well known, i only noted it would be cool if there were swimming specific gear for people to purchase that are more inclined to do so

By swim suit, I thought you meant clothing. There already is swimming specific gear... that tends to have tumble on it. :-)

[ExileStrife]

How about we just add a swimming skill?

*waits for Snoteye*

[Snoteye]

Sounds like an excellent idea. I think I will just go script a custom skill system.

[Ommadawn]

And they say sarcasm can't be conveyed in text.

[BrittanyPanthas]

......I really don't think that was sarcasm, Omma.  In fact, I'm entirely sure it wasn't. -.-

[FleetingHeart]

Fairly certain snoteye was being sarcastic towards Strife, yes. Since custom skills would be insane to create, if it's possible at all without haks.

But! Bumpy bumpy! This suggestion is still entirely feasible. :-) If it's desired, that is.