Comments on: Skill Focus: Athletics

By: Ameron

Ameron — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:27:20 +0000

@Dungeon
I’m glad you found this article useful. It was a lot more difficult to come up creative uses for Athletics than I first anticipated. Especially when I tried to find ones that couldn’t be duplicated with Acrobatics.

@Dungeon & Chase Dagger
Regarding wrestling moves, I leave that to you and your DM to flesh out. My wrestling knowledge is extremely limited. But off the top of my head I think that a sleeper hold would begin with an attempt to grab an opponent. Then if successful you make an Athletics check vs the opponents Fort. I’d look at the way the sleep spell works for a guideline on how to handle putting your opponent to sleep this way.

I’d recommend using wrestling more for dramatic purposes than actual game combat. I suspect that we’ll see expanded rules for unarmed combat when Wizards brings out the Monk for 4e in PHB3.

By: Chase Dagger

Chase Dagger — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:35:02 +0000

Great stuff to work with, thanks Ameron.
I too would love to soak up more regarding the wrestling moves.
I know my PCs would love it, one hold move and one blunt impact move (like a pile-driver) as examples would be enough to work with and build others.

By: Dungeon

Dungeon — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:08:29 +0000

Nice article Ameron, i do agree that Athletics and Acrobatics are two major different skills, and some DMs use them both interchangably. i have a question though on number 5.
“Wrestling
You’ve able to fight unarmed. A successful Athletics check allows you to perform a signature move. This could include a sleeper hold, pile-driver or the like.”

could you include the specifics of what the sleeper hold or pile-driver do. and how they affect game play? I just want to know how you would do those things.