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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5552746" data-attributes="member: 80487">The rules tell me (provisionally) the same thing, and this is not contrary to reason. I say "provisionally", because (just for instance) gauntlets of dexterity can make up for want of the special training entailed.This understanding that picking locks is a special ability is assumed as part of the canon of common education brought to the game, and implicit in calling it out as a function of the thief class. The ability to vanish literally in shadows is even more extraordinary, albeit less fantastic than the powers of Zelazny's Shadowjack.Climbing nearly sheer surfaces unaided is a much more notable undertaking than climbing a flight of stairs, a ladder or -- what you seem unable to grasp -- a rope. Climbing a rope was part of the president's physical fitness standards for American youth; emulating Spider-man was not!On the other hand, "the rules tell you" that only a thief can hear a noise -- which is contrary both to common sense and to the letter of the rules. The distinction of thieves is that they eventually get better at it.</blockquote>