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One of the deamongrounds came up with some nice house-rules regarding the distance a PC can walkt. It was AGL + 10 instead of the basic 15m from the core rules.

My question is, has someone made some decent house-rules on jumping? Neither the core rules nor the internet have something for me.

The world record for long jumps is at 8.91 m at the moment. It should be taken into consideration that the Olympic jumpers have a sprint of ~40 m before 'take off'.

Rules shoud not be too difficult. I am thinking about walking distance (average of 15m) devided by 5. Any ideas?

Sounds like a reasonable calculation. I wonder if it's worth altering the base number for particular careers (such as the Athlete) or giving a bonus for high Agility?

Well as a house rule we add halve the acrobatics skill to the base movement rate. In the AGL + 10 variation high Agility would directly lead to a longer distance when jumping.

I would argue that Strength has more of an influence on the distance a person can jump than Agility would. While Agility is the maneuverability of the body, the power that comes from launching oneself into the air is Strength based.
So, I would use this calculation:
Strength x2 feet standing long jump
Strength + Agility feet jogging long jump (for minimum distance of 30 feet running start)
Strength x 1.5 + Agility feet sprinting long jump (for minimum distance of 60 feet running start)
This way the maximum possible character sprinting long jump is 25 feet (7.62 meters).

But then, I use all calculations that have to do with feet (and a tendancy towards 5s of feet) in my games. I'm Imperial American, what am I gonna do?

7.62? Always related to my interests!

Yep I agree. Good point. Since you are actually catapulting a lot of mass somewhere STR would probably be more appropriate to caltculate the jumping distance. I think I will use your suggestions and try find something that works for me. Since the average human can carry up to 30 kilogramm of stuff without any penalties and survives a critical hit by a 9mm to the head jumping distance might not need to be too close to the real world. I think I make 10 the maximum jumping distance. Acrobatics could probably be used to shorten the required "take off" distance rather than be added to the jumping distance.

I also like AkDragoon's method (although naturally I'll change it for use with metres!)
I think Acrobatics could also be used for checking how well the PC has landed when the landing is critical (like say jumping onto a narrow ledge where's there's not much room to land), perhaps something like a Diff:Acrobatics test to lower the Difficulty Level one level to see how well they landed (or if they failed).
I know Acrobatics is a general skill use for all of these types of situations but I just thought I'd mention it again

My $0.02, borrowed heavily from above.

I consider STR and AGL equaly important for a successful jump because Strength gets you the lift and AGL gets you a landing (you really need to catch the edge of the cliff you're jumping to. Vaulting twenty feet straight into it looks awesome but is less useful).


standing long jump
(STR + AGL) / 6 in meters
(Results between 0-3 meters with most results around 1.5 or so).


jogging long jump (for minimum distance of 10 meter running start)
Athletics reduces minimum distrance by half rank
(STR + AGL) / 4 in meters
(Results between 0-5 meters with most results around 2.0-2.5 or so).


sprinting long jump (for minimum distance of 20 meter running start)
Athletics reduces minimum distance by rank
(STR + AGL) / 2 in meters
(Results between 0-10 meters with most results around 5 meters or so).

These numbers are at zero load.

At normal load, half all results.

At burdened, quarter all results.

Jumping is not practical beyond burdened.

Excellent. I'll take these. What is the difference between Zero load and Normal load? Zero load is in "Swimming". A pair of good shoes and a tracksuit?

Zvezda wrote:Excellent. I'll take these. What is the difference between Zero load and Normal load? Zero load is in "Swimming". A pair of good shoes and a tracksuit?

That's my take. Zero load is a light set of clothes and nothing else.

Normal load is anything beyond that up to (STR+CON)x3 kg.

Now if the guy has shorts, running shoes, serengeti sunglasses and a deagle. I might grant him the Zero load formula unless he's firing it at the same time. (This isn't Quake 3).

Hehe! Thanks. I think this system will work fine.