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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 9028889" data-attributes="member: 6788736"><p>Apologies if you took it as an insult. For clarity, the 'you with a Strength score less than (body weight/30)' I was referring to is the 'you' in game (a PC, NPC or Creature who has an actual Strength score), not the actual poster I was quoting (I have no idea if Oofta can climb a rope or not, and in any event, he doesn't have a Strength score represented on 3d6).</p><p></p><p>But allow me to rephrase for clarity:</p><p></p><p>''If <em>a game world human </em>can't do it, it's because <em>the game world human</em> has custard arms or they're obese (their Strength score is less than (weight in lbs/30).''</p><p></p><p>In game, a 290lbs Human PC or NPC can lift his own weight off the ground with a Strength score of 10 (Commoner) which would put that commoner in the 'morbidly obese' category.</p><p></p><p>I suppose a non-obese PC or NPC might have some kind of a weird grip stopping them from being able to yank a rope with (bodyweight) weight off the ground, or be missing thumbs, or have a weak rotator cuff or shoulder joints, or something odd.</p><p></p><p>But 'average healthy real-world humans' can climb ropes, reliably, every single time:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]285906[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>To flip it back into game terms again, these guys aren't falling off the ropes, or unable to climb the ropes 50 percent of the time (DC 10) or even 5 percent of the time (DC 5). The tiny minority -of these real-world people- that cant climb ropes would - again - flipping back in game terms - have low Strength scores (less than total weight of them and gear/30).</p><p></p><p>To keep it in game terms, they've joined the Army with Strength scores of 5-6 or so, and weigh over 150-180lbs.</p><p></p><p>Hope that clears that up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 9028889, member: 6788736"] Apologies if you took it as an insult. For clarity, the 'you with a Strength score less than (body weight/30)' I was referring to is the 'you' in game (a PC, NPC or Creature who has an actual Strength score), not the actual poster I was quoting (I have no idea if Oofta can climb a rope or not, and in any event, he doesn't have a Strength score represented on 3d6). But allow me to rephrase for clarity: ''If [I]a game world human [/I]can't do it, it's because [I]the game world human[/I] has custard arms or they're obese (their Strength score is less than (weight in lbs/30).'' In game, a 290lbs Human PC or NPC can lift his own weight off the ground with a Strength score of 10 (Commoner) which would put that commoner in the 'morbidly obese' category. I suppose a non-obese PC or NPC might have some kind of a weird grip stopping them from being able to yank a rope with (bodyweight) weight off the ground, or be missing thumbs, or have a weak rotator cuff or shoulder joints, or something odd. But 'average healthy real-world humans' can climb ropes, reliably, every single time: [ATTACH type="full"]285906[/ATTACH] To flip it back into game terms again, these guys aren't falling off the ropes, or unable to climb the ropes 50 percent of the time (DC 10) or even 5 percent of the time (DC 5). The tiny minority -of these real-world people- that cant climb ropes would - again - flipping back in game terms - have low Strength scores (less than total weight of them and gear/30). To keep it in game terms, they've joined the Army with Strength scores of 5-6 or so, and weigh over 150-180lbs. Hope that clears that up. [/QUOTE]
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