Editing Yagura:SRD:Movement, Position, and Distance (section)

===Tactical Movement===

====How Far Can Your Character Move?====

Your speed is determined by your race and your encumbrance. Your speed while unarmored is your base land speed.

=====Encumbrance=====

A character encumbered by carrying a large amount of gear, treasure, or fallen comrades may move slower than normal.

=====Hampered Movement=====

Difficult terrain, obstacles, or poor visibility can hamper movement.

=====Movement in Combat=====

Generally, you can move your speed in a [[Yagura:SRD:Round|round]] and still do something (take a [[Yagura:SRD:Move Actions|move action]] and a [[Yagura:SRD:Standard Actions|standard action]]).

If you do nothing but move (that is, if you use both of your actions in a [[Yagura:SRD:Round|round]] to move your speed), you can move double your speed.

If you spend the entire [[Yagura:SRD:Round|round]] running, you can move quadruple your speed. If you do something that requires a full [[Yagura:SRD:Round|round]] you can only take a [[Yagura:SRD:5-Foot Step|5-foot step]].

=====Bonuses to Speed=====

Some class abilities, many spells, and many magic items can affect a character’s speed. Always apply any modifiers to a character’s speed before adjusting the character’s speed based on encumbrance, and remember that multiple bonuses of the same type to a character’s speed don’t stack.

====Measuring Distance====

=====Diagonals=====

When measuring distance, the first diagonal counts as 1 square (5 ft.), the second counts as 2 squares (10 ft.), the third counts as 1, the fourth as 2, and so on.

You can’t move diagonally past a corner (even by taking a [[Yagura:SRD:5-Foot Step|5-foot step]]). You can move diagonally past a creature, even an opponent.

You can also move diagonally past other impassable obstacles, such as pits.

=====Closest Creature=====

When it’s important to determine the closest square or creature to a location, if two squares or creatures are equally close, randomly determine which one counts as closest by rolling a die.

====Moving through a Square====

=====Friend=====

You can move through a square occupied by a friendly character, unless you are charging. When you move through a square occupied by a friendly character, that character doesn’t provide you with [[Yagura:SRD:Cover|cover]].

=====Opponent=====

You can’t move through a square occupied by an opponent, unless the opponent is [[Yagura:SRD:Helpless|helpless]]. You can move through a square occupied by a [[Yagura:SRD:Helpless|helpless]] opponent without penalty. (Some creatures, particularly very large ones, may present an obstacle even when [[Yagura:SRD:Helpless|helpless]]. In such cases, each square you move through counts as 2 squares.)

=====Ending Your Movement=====

You can’t end your movement in the same square as another creature unless it is [[Yagura:SRD:Helpless|helpless]] or you and the other creature are vastly different in size.

=====Tumbling=====

A trained character can attempt to tumble through a square occupied by an opponent (see the [[Yagura:SRD:Tumble Skill|Tumble]] skill).

=====Square Occupied by Creature Three Sizes Larger or Smaller=====

Any creature can move through a square occupied by a creature three [[Yagura:SRD:Size Category|size categories]] larger than it is.

A big creature can move through a square occupied by a creature three [[Yagura:SRD:Size Category|size categories]] smaller than it is.

=====Designated Exceptions=====

Some creatures break the above rules. A creature that completely fills the squares it occupies cannot be moved past, even with the [[Yagura:SRD:Tumble Skill|Tumble]] skill or similar special abilities.

====Terrain and Obstacles====

=====Difficult Terrain=====

Difficult terrain hampers movement. Each square of difficult terrain counts as 2 squares of movement. (Each diagonal move into a difficult terrain square counts as 3 squares.) You can’t [[Yagura:SRD:Run|run]] or [[Yagura:SRD:Charge|charge]] across difficult terrain.

If you occupy squares with different kinds of terrain, you can move only as fast as the most difficult terrain you occupy will allow.

Flying and [[Yagura:SRD:Incorporeal|incorporeal]] creatures are not hampered by difficult terrain.

=====Obstacles=====

Like difficult terrain, obstacles can hamper movement. If an obstacle hampers movement but doesn’t completely block it each obstructed square or obstacle between squares counts as 2 squares of movement. You must pay this cost to cross the barrier, in addition to the cost to move into the square on the other side. If you don’t have sufficient movement to cross the barrier and move into the square on the other side, you can’t cross the barrier. Some obstacles may also require a [[Yagura:SRD:Skill Check|skill check]] to cross.

On the other hand, some obstacles block movement entirely. A character can’t move through a blocking obstacle.

Flying and [[Yagura:SRD:Incorporeal|incorporeal]] creatures can avoid most obstacles

=====Squeezing=====

In some cases, you may have to squeeze into or through an area that isn’t as wide as the space you take up. You can squeeze through or into a space that is at least half as wide as your normal space. Each move into or through a narrow space counts as if it were 2 squares, and while squeezed in a narrow space you take a –4 penalty on [[Yagura:SRD:Attack Roll|attack rolls]] and a –4 penalty to [[Yagura:SRD:AC|AC]].

When a Large creature (which normally takes up four squares) squeezes into a space that’s one square wide, the creature’s miniature figure occupies two squares, centered on the line between the two squares. For a bigger creature, center the creature likewise in the area it squeezes into.

A creature can squeeze past an opponent while moving but it can’t end its movement in an occupied square.

To squeeze through or into a space less than half your space’s width, you must use the [[Yagura:SRD:Escape Artist Skill|Escape Artist]] skill. You can’t attack while using [[Yagura:SRD:Escape Artist Skill|Escape Artist]] to squeeze through or into a narrow space, you take a –4 penalty to [[Yagura:SRD:AC|AC]], and you lose any [[Yagura:SRD:Dexterity|Dexterity]] bonus to [[Yagura:SRD:AC|AC]].

====Special Movement Rules====

These rules cover special movement situations.

=====Accidentally Ending Movement in an Illegal Space=====

Sometimes a character ends its movement while moving through a space where it’s not allowed to stop. When that happens, put your miniature in the last legal position you occupied, or the closest legal position, if there’s a legal position that’s closer.

=====Double Movement Cost=====

When your movement is hampered in some way, your movement usually costs double. For example, each square of movement through difficult terrain counts as 2 squares, and each diagonal move through such terrain counts as 3 squares (just as two diagonal moves normally do).

If movement cost is doubled twice, then each square counts as 4 squares (or as 6 squares if moving diagonally). If movement cost is doubled three times, then each square counts as 8 squares (12 if diagonal) and so on. This is an exception to the general rule that two doublings are equivalent to a tripling.

=====Minimum Movement=====

Despite penalties to movement, you can take a [[Yagura:SRD:Full-Round Actions|full-round action]] to move 5 feet (1 square) in any direction, even diagonally. (This rule doesn’t allow you to move through impassable terrain or to move when all movement is prohibited.) Such movement provokes [[Yagura:SRD:Attack of Opportunity|attacks of opportunity]] as normal (despite the distance covered, this move isn’t a [[Yagura:SRD:5-Foot Step|5-foot step]]).

====Movement Modes====

Creatures may have modes of movement other than walking and running. These are natural, not magical, unless specifically noted.

=====Burrow=====

A creature with a burrow speed can tunnel through dirt, but not through rock unless the descriptive text says otherwise. Creatures cannot [[Yagura:SRD:Charge|charge]] or [[Yagura:SRD:Full-Round Actions#Run|run]] while burrowing. Most burrowing creatures do not leave behind tunnels other creatures can use (either because the material they tunnel through fills in behind them or because they do not actually dislocate any material when burrowing); see the individual creature descriptions for details.

=====[[Yagura:SRD:Climb Skill|Climb]]=====

A creature with a climb speed has a +8 racial bonus on all [[Climb]] checks. The creature must make a [[Climb]] check to climb any wall or slope with a [[Yagura:SRD:DC|DC]] of more than 0, but it always can choose to take 10 even if rushed or threatened while climbing. The creature climbs at the given speed while climbing. If it chooses an accelerated climb it moves at double the given climb speed (or its base land speed, whichever is lower) and makes a single [[Climb]] check at a –5 penalty. Creatures cannot [[Yagura:SRD:Full-Round Actions#Run|run]] while climbing. A creature retains its [[Yagura:SRD:Dexterity|Dexterity]] bonus to [[Yagura:SRD:Armor Class|Armor Class]] (if any) while climbing, and opponents get no special bonus on their attacks against a climbing creature.

=====Fly=====

:''see also'' [[Yagura:SRD:Fly]]

A creature with a fly speed can move through the air at the indicated speed if carrying no more than a light load. (Note that medium armor does not necessarily constitute a medium load.) All fly speeds include a parenthetical note indicating maneuverability, as follows:

* Perfect: The creature can perform almost any aerial maneuver it wishes. It moves through the air as well as a human moves over smooth ground.
* Good: The creature is very agile in the air (like a housefly or a hummingbird), but cannot change direction as readily as those with perfect maneuverability.
* Average: The creature can fly as adroitly as a small bird. 
* Poor: The creature flies as well as a very large bird.
* Clumsy: The creature can barely maneuver at all.

A creature that flies can make dive attacks. A dive attack works just like a [[Yagura:SRD:Charge|charge]], but the diving creature must move a minimum of 30 feet and descend at least 10 feet. It can make only claw or talon attacks, but these deal double damage. A creature can use the [[Yagura:SRD:Full-Round Actions#Run|run]] action while flying, provided it flies in a straight line.

=====[[Yagura:SRD:Swim Skill|Swim]]=====

A creature with a swim speed can move through water at its swim speed without making [[Swim]] checks. It has a +8 racial bonus on any [[Swim]] check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. The creature can always can choose to take 10 on a [[Swim]] check, even if distracted or endangered. The creature can use the [[Yagura:SRD:Full-Round Actions#Run|run]] action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line.