D&D 5E Does Rope Trick Heal?

[Satyrn]

Otherwise, the players have much less incentive to refrain from a long rest after every encounter.

This would be hilarious in practice.

The party wakes from their rest, fully refreshed, and walk through the door to the next room. They fight the hobgoblins there, then hunker down to rest again. One minute of activity, followed by 23 hours and 59 minutes of rest, repeated endlessly.

Undermountain will be cleared out! (in a decade)

 

[Umbran]

Stop being a troll.

Could you refrain from name-calling, please? Thanks much.

 

[WhosDaDungeonMaster]

It's a climb that doesn't require a skill check of any kind. That is not "more strenuous" in my book.

Any DM who tries to rule it as you suggest is a DM that will quickly have no players.

Climbing a rope for you might not be, but for a lot of people it is. As I wrote in my post, I wouldn't rule it this way so I am no way condoning it, but climbing a rope is "more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds" and if a DM wanted to rule it, that would be their prerogative.

 

[billd91]

Climbing a rope for you might not be, but for a lot of people it is. As I wrote in my post, I wouldn't rule it this way so I am no way condoning it, but climbing a rope is "more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds" and if a DM wanted to rule it, that would be their prerogative.

I think most groups would be justified in telling that DM to knock it off or find another group considering it's pretty obvious that rope trick was written to facilitate a short rest in an otherwise dangerous environment.

 

[Yunru]

I'd argue climbing the rope is probably less strenuous than tending wounds, at least for the one being tended.

 

[5ekyu]

Climbing a rope for you might not be, but for a lot of people it is. As I wrote in my post, I wouldn't rule it this way so I am no way condoning it, but climbing a rope is "more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds" and if a DM wanted to rule it, that would be their prerogative.

I can think of quite a few characters for whom reading would be a lot more strenuous and unsettling a task than climbing a short rope.

 

[guachi]

Climbing a rope for you might not be, but for a lot of people it is. As I wrote in my post, I wouldn't rule it this way so I am no way condoning it, but climbing a rope is "more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds" and if a DM wanted to rule it, that would be their prerogative.

Since the rope can be 60 feet or less you can certainly make the rope length short enough to be trivially easy to climb.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

But... that doesn't change what the spell does?
I'm not seeing how it impacts whether it counts as healing or not?

It does not heal you. It allows you to safely rest and heal up for one hour which might be a short rest or the use of different spells or abilities.
But it also traps you in a certain place for an hour which might prove very impracticable. You could also call it a wall of force around yourself. Without sight to most of your enviroment. You are not controlling what is going around you.

Do you call wall of force a heal spell? No. Do you call teleport a heal spell (you could teleport home and back again).

 

[WhosDaDungeonMaster]

It amazes me how some people respond to something that is, no matter what you say, the DMs prerogative in how to rule the spell and what constitutes strenuous activity during a Short Rest. And, as I pointed out twice, I am not advocating this interpretation at all.

However, if did rule on something and a player took an attitude of "change it or I'm leaving", I would happily escort him to the door.

 

[FrogReaver]

It does not heal you. It allows you to safely rest and heal up for one hour which might be a short rest or the use of different spells or abilities.
But it also traps you in a certain place for an hour which might prove very impracticable. You could also call it a wall of force around yourself. Without sight to most of your enviroment. You are not controlling what is going around you.

Do you call wall of force a heal spell? No. Do you call teleport a heal spell (you could teleport home and back again).

Invisibility would be a heal spell to then