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[[Category:Epic Path]]
A creature with a ''vaulting'' speed can leap or bound from place to place on the ground. This has several advantages and limitations over the normal jumping ability provided by the [[Acrobatics]] skill.

A creature with ''vaulting'' chooses a destination space within the range of their listed speed for ''vaulting''.  The destination space must be unblocked and unoccupied.  If the destination space is considered difficult terrain, it costs an additional 5 feet of movement to land there.  Once a legal destination space has been selected, no [[acrobatics]] skill check is required; the creature simply leaves their current space and lands in the destination space.

The ''vaulting'' creature does provoke, but only as though they have left the spaces adjacent to their starting space and the spaces adjacent to their destination space.  No other spaces of their movement provoke attacks of opportunity.  Each move action of a vault is always a straight line, and no turning or avoiding of obstacles can be performed mid-vault.

''Vaulting'' creatures can also leap vertically, up to a maximum of half their ''vaulting'' speed.  If they wish to exceed this value, they can either perform a double move (increasing their maximum vertical distance to their single-move ''vaulting'' speed), or make an [[acrobatics]] check to jump (as a move action), like anyone else.

When performing a double-move, a creature with ''vaulting'' can either make two distinct jumps, or a single jump up to double their listed speed.

Vaulting creatures which fail to end their turn on the ground will fall, suffering normal falling damage based on their height.  Falling is resolved at the end of their turn, and ''vaulting'' does not provide any mitigation against falling damage.

* '''Prone:''' A ''vaulting'' creature gains no bonuses or defenses against being knocked [[prone]].

* '''Difficult Terrain:''' Only the ''vaulting'' creature's destination space is considered when checking for difficult terrain.  If it is difficult terrain (or contains difficult terrain, if the ''vaulting'' creature is larger than size medium), it costs an additional 5-feet of movement to choose it as the destination space.

* '''Permitted Movement:''' ''Vaulting'' creatures are able to [[charge]], and [[run]].  However, run cannot be used to move vertically more than a double move would permit (the creature's listed ''vaulting'' speed).  ''Vaulting'' creatures can only make [[5-foot step]]s, or [[withdraw]] if they also have a listed [[Walk]] speed, by combining the movement types.

* '''Overland Travel:''' Outside of combat, a creature can use ''vaulting'' to [[Overland Travel|travel overland]] at the same pace of a [[walk]]ing creature of the same speed.