Climbing down a cliff face, using the levitation spell, having a fly speed, walking down an incline would all be ways to descend 30 foot which are not falls however.
Why not? The book doesn't say when a fall begins. If downward movement doesn't mean falling, then why does jumping? If Downward velocity does mean falling, then climbing down is falling.
The issue here is that we're trying to assert certainty and clarification where the system we are working with simply does not support that. It's trash and needs to be updated.
Take-off and landing exert similar forces. And when it comes to high jump in athletics, cushioning the landing was only introduced in tandem with new jumping techniques.
Precisely my thinking. If the spell hasn't ended yet, you're being bolstered by magic to allow your bones to survive the acceleration that would get you 30 ft up in the air. You will experience the exact same physical forces on landing. Why would they suddenly break now? And you're supposed to be able to do it again next turn too.
The sports jumping is a terrible argument IMO. They have cushions because they've mutilated sport to the point that it's entirely about making a single, hyper-defined number go up, whatever the cost to practicality. You can squeeze out a few micrometers by jumping recklessly such that you can't catch yourself on the way down, which will make you win a competition but is a completely useless real-world skill, and doesn't negate the fact that athletes jumping a centimeter lower but with more realistic landing configuration are not hurting themselves on landing. And don't even get me started on pole vaulters. They needed help from a machine to get that high, of course their bodies don't hit the ground nicely. We can't compare what they're doing to discussion of jumping with your body.
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Why not? The book doesn't say when a fall begins. If downward movement doesn't mean falling, then why does jumping? If Downward velocity does mean falling, then climbing down is falling.
The issue here is that we're trying to assert certainty and clarification where the system we are working with simply does not support that. It's trash and needs to be updated.
Precisely my thinking. If the spell hasn't ended yet, you're being bolstered by magic to allow your bones to survive the acceleration that would get you 30 ft up in the air. You will experience the exact same physical forces on landing. Why would they suddenly break now? And you're supposed to be able to do it again next turn too.
The sports jumping is a terrible argument IMO. They have cushions because they've mutilated sport to the point that it's entirely about making a single, hyper-defined number go up, whatever the cost to practicality. You can squeeze out a few micrometers by jumping recklessly such that you can't catch yourself on the way down, which will make you win a competition but is a completely useless real-world skill, and doesn't negate the fact that athletes jumping a centimeter lower but with more realistic landing configuration are not hurting themselves on landing. And don't even get me started on pole vaulters. They needed help from a machine to get that high, of course their bodies don't hit the ground nicely. We can't compare what they're doing to discussion of jumping with your body.