# How far can a Barlgura jump?

The Player's Handbook states that:

1. a running long jump equals your Strength score in feet and,
2. each foot of movement of such a jump is just that, 1 foot of your move, and

I ran an encounter using Barlgura demons (MM p. 56). Their speed is 30 feet. They have an ability called "Running Leap" that states that their running long jump is 40 feet. Also I assume that the "running start" mentioned is at least 10 feet of movement, getting a minimum of 50 feet, 20 more than their speed allows.

An explanation of how this works would be appreciated, since I have a 20 Strength paladin now getting crazy ideas in that same campaign.

• Welcome to the site! Take the tour! It appears jumping is a frequent point of contention in 5e, so you might want to run a quick search like this one to see if your question's already been at least partially answered. Also, I must ask about your game's totally swole paladin: is he a bar-lgura demon? If not, what makes him think he has the running leap ability? ;-) Anyway, thank you for participating and have fun. – Hey I Can Chan May 8 '17 at 3:32
• Thanks! lots of info in here im loving it! i did search but found the rules i alreay have in the book, I assumed that a specific rule like running leap feature would over rule a general. So i took advantage of their lack of darkvision (my plaeyers love human variant feat option) and blitz them with a surprise ambush of invisible barlgura's leaping from afar! the paladin still took one out in one round though! but he went down once! he has great weapon fighting style and feat,and alos the heavy armor master feat which took his str to 20 – Piero May 8 '17 at 3:54