Escape Artist (Dex; armor check penalty)

    Your training allows you to slip from bonds and escape grapples.

Check: The table below gives typical DCs for an Escape Artist skill check.

Retry: Varies.  See table above.

Special: You can take a 10 and a 20 on Escape Artist checks.

Time: Varies.  See the table above.

MOVE THROUGH A TIGHT SPACE

     This is for getting through a space where your head fits but your shoulders don’t. If the space is long you may need to make multiple checks. You can’t get through a space that your head does not fit through.

ESCAPE ARTIST UNCHAINED

     By taking the Signature Skill feat, you can unchain the following special bonuses:

• 5 Ranks: If you take a –10 penalty, the time required to use this skill is halved; escaping a grapple or pin is a move action, and escaping a net, animate rope, command plants, or control plants spell is a standard action.
  
• 10 Ranks: You can attempt to escape from any entangling effect as a standard action with an Escape Artist check (DC = the effect’s save DC + 10).  You can attempt an Escape Artist check as a move action to set the DC for a creature to escape from ropes or bindings; you gain a +10 bonus on the check if you instead attempt it as a full-round action.
  
• 15 Ranks: You can escape any entangling effect (as above) as a move action.  As a standard action, you can attempt an Escape Artist check (DC = the effect’s save DC + 20) to suppress a slow or paralysis effect for 1 round, plus 1 round for every 5 by which you exceed the DC.  This action counts as purely mental for the purpose of being able to take it while paralyzed.
  
• 20 Ranks: You can escape being entangled, grappled, or pinned as an immediate action with an Escape Artist check (DC = the effect’s DC + 10 or the attacker’s CMB + 10).  You can attempt to suppress a slow or paralysis effect as a standard action (increasing the DC by 10), a move action (increasing the DC by 15), or an immediate action (increasing the DC by 20).