Tashtego, it was a most excellent story!
Lemme tell you something about my gaming group from a few years ago. This is my fact-to-face group, I was DMing, and we were playing 3.5 D&D in Eberron. There's an area called the Mournland in Eberron, which had some magical disaster occur during the last big war. The whole place is essentially one bit magical nuclear fallout zone, full of weird and dangerous things. Of course the party ended up going there, for reasons, and ended up near what was ground zero for the disaster. There was a huge, half-ruined tower there, that had a struggling chaos dragon chained to it, its lifeforce being drained for power. Inside was basically this mad scientist's laboratory laced liberally with Chaoitech. To get inside, the group had decided to scale the tower and free the dragon. Then our swashbuckling fighter, who always had more style than sense and was always looking for "adventure," looked down through and opening and saw the mad scientist. He grabbed a dangling chain with one hand, his magical sword in the other, and swung down from the heights, Tarzan-style.
Rolled a natural 20.
I gave this result a quick ponder - was there anything, anything I had planned for this encounter that was cooler than our beloved Conner swinging down from the tops of a tower and skewering the BBEG with a single thrust against the nightmare machine of his own design?
...nope.
As is said in the GM's advice section of Numenera - "That's not cheating, that's awesome."