====== Escape Artist (DEX; ARMOR CHECK PENALTY) ======

**Check:** Making a check to escape from being bound up by ropes, manacles, or other restraints (except a grappler) requires 1 minute of work. Escaping a net or entangle spell is a full-round action. Squeezing through a tight space takes at least 1 minute, maybe longer, depending on how long the space is.

^ Restraint            ^ DC ^
| Ropes                |  Binder's Use Rope check at +10  |
| Net                  |  20  |
| Manacles             |  30  |
| Tight space          |  30  |
| Masterwork manacles  |  35  |
| Grappler             |  Grappler's grapple check  |
| Animate rope spell, command plants spell, control plants spell, or entangle spell |  20  |
| Snare spell          |  23  |

**Ropes:** The character's Escape Artist check is opposed by the binder's Use Rope check. Since it's easier to tie someone up than to escape from being tied up, the binder gets a special +10 bonus on her check.

Manacles and Masterwork Manacles: Manacles have a DC set by their construction.

**Net:** Escaping from a net is a full-round action.

**Tight Space:** This is the DC for getting through a space where one's head fits but one's shoulders don't. If the space is long, such as in a chimney, the DM may call for multiple checks. The character can't fit through a space that the character's head does not fit through.

**Grappler:** The character can make an Escape Artist check opposed by the enemy's grapple check to get out of a grapple or out of a pinned condition (so that the character is just being grappled). Doing so is a standard action, so if the character escapes the grapple the character can move in the same round. See "Wriggle Free" under Other Grappling Options.

**Spell:** Escaping from an animate rope, command plants, control plants, or entangle spell is a full-round action.

**Retry:** The character can make another check after a failed check if the character is squeezing through a tight space, making multiple checks. If the situation permits, the character can make additional checks or even take 20 as long as the character is not being actively opposed.

**Special:** A character with 5 or more ranks of Use Rope gets a +2 synergy bonus on Escape Artist checks when escaping from rope bonds.