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|name=Ukemi

|summary=When you collide with a solid surface, you can bounce off of it and spring to your feet, negating a small amount of damage.

|fluff=You get knocked down, but you get up again, they can never ever keep you down!

*''{{Anchor|Negate Prone}}'': Whenever you would be knocked [[SRD:Prone|prone]] for any reason, you may attempt a [[SRD:Reflex|Reflex]] save to avoid being knocked prone. If the effect that knocked you prone does damage and doesn't ordinarily allow a save to avoid being knocked prone, the save DC to perform an ukemi is 15 + damage taken. If the effect doesn't do any damage and doesn't ordinarily allow a save to avoid being knocked prone, the DC is the [[SRD:Attack Roll|attack roll]] + 10 (if it was an attack roll, such as being [[SRD:Trip|tripped]]) or its DC if it did allow a save (if it doesn't involve an attack roll; this includes any skill check DCs that may be allowed to avoid being knocked prone (you make a [[SRD:Reflex|Reflex]] save against the same DC)). If the effect already allowed a save to avoid being knocked prone, you make a second save against the same DC increased by 5 (this second save is a [[SRD:Reflex|Reflex]] save, even if the original save wasn't). The ukemi attempt is made when you are knocked prone (more specifically, when you hit the ground) - no sooner or later. If you succeed on your [[SRD:Reflex|Reflex]] save, you bounce off of the ground as you hit it and leap back to your feet, standing up without requiring an action to do so (or provoking attacks of opportunity).

:If the effect that would knock you prone has a duration of 1 round or less (including something like an [[SRD:Earthquake|''earthquake'']]), you need only succeed on one ukemi attempt to avoid falling prone. This is a good thing, because that's the limit for how many ukemis you may attempt to negate a single attempt to knock you prone. However, if your ukemi causes you to land on terrain that is sufficient to knock you prone all by itself (such as ground affected by a [[Veles Whirl (3.5e Spell)|''Veles whirl'']] or a very narrow surface (assuming that you fail on your [[SRD:Balance Skill|Balance]] check to remain upright)), you may immediately attempt another ukemi against the same DC as the previous one (or the [[SRD:Balance Skill|Balance]] DC of the difficult terrain, whichever is higher) to try to avoid being knocked prone and maneuver yourself to someplace where you can actually stand up. Each ukemi after the first consumes one of your attacks of opportunity for the round (time that you spend bouncing around is time that can't be spent reacting to openings in your foes' defenses), and if you run out of attacks of opportunity, you can't perform any more ukemis in response to that terrain. If you fail on even one ukemi attempt, or if you still can't stand up when you run out of attacks of opportunity (or are unwilling to expend any more), you immediately fall [[SRD:Prone|prone]], your opportunities to escape that fate utterly exhausted. The original effect that knocked you prone no longer applies (at least for the purposes of your ukemi attempts) when your successive ukemi attempts begin; any damage that it inflicted has already been sustained, and you can't reduce it any more than you already have.

*''{{Anchor|Spring Off Wall}}:'' Whenever you are sent flying by any effect (such as an [[SRD:Awesome Blow|awesome]] [[Awesome Blow (3.5e Feat)|blow]] or a Setting Sun throw), and your movement is prematurely terminated by a collision with an object or creature, you may negate the damage suffered as a consequence of the collision with a successful [[SRD:Reflex|Reflex]] save (DC = 10 + the number of feet remaining in your movement at the time of the collision). Success means that you push yourself off of the object or creature as you hit it and spring away, completely negating the force of the impact through an application of opposite force that spares both yourself and whatever you collided with from suffering damage. (If you collided with a creature of a size equal to or less than yourself, an ukemi off of that creature may knock it prone, and [[#Negate Prone|it may need to use an ukemi itself to avoid falling over]]; the save DC of such an ukemi is equal to ½ of your [[SRD:Reflex|Reflex]] save result + ½ of your [[SRD:Jump Skill|Jump]] check result (see below).)

*''{{Anchor|Soften Fall}}:'' When you would take damage from a fall, you may make a [[SRD:Reflex|Reflex]] save (DC = 10 + 1 per 10 feet of effective falling distance for determining fall damage). If you succeed on this Reflex save, you bounce off of the ground as you hit it, converting some of the impact of your fall into a little bit of vertical and horizontal momentum; you treat the distance you fell as though it were 10 feet less than it actually was. (This falling damage reduction is applied as a result of successfully performing the ukemi, and so is not factored into the DC). You may attempt to deliberately land in a prone position so that you can use the first ukemi technique to negate actually ending up prone and reduce the damage sustained by 6; this is seldom a good idea, though, as it may prevent you from using abilities that can reduce your effective fall distance (such as [[SRD:Monk#Slow Fall|slow fall]] and [[Catfall (3.5e Feat)|Catfall]]).

*[[#Negate Prone|Negate Prone]] (Knocked prone by attack roll w/o damage): Let's say you get tripped by a wolf, and its attack roll on the trip attempt was 17. Your Reflex save DC to negate being knocked prone is 27.

:As a side note, you can't attempt an ukemi when a Setting Sun adept trips you to perform a throw, as he performs the throw ''before'' you actually wind up prone. You would instead attempt the ukemi when you land, assuming that you don't get thrown into a wall or another creature (in that case, you would first attempt to spring off the wall/creature, and then make an attempt to negate falling prone if your attempt to spring off the wall/creature failed). ''Ballista throw''<ref name="tob">[[Publication:Tome of Battle|Tome of Battle (Book of Nine Swords)]]</ref> doesn't allow you to perform an ukemi in response to being thrown into another creature, as the maneuver causes you to be thrown right ''through'' said creature and continue traveling out to 60 ft. away. You may perform an ukemi to negate falling prone when your movement stops, as you fall prone at that point.

|normal=You can't react to a collision with the ground or a wall to stay on your feet and reduce the impact.

Size bonuses and penalties to attack rolls and Armor class are also applied to ukemis. The larger you are, the more difficult it is to perform this technique.

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