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Message: <blockquote data-quote="katahn" data-source="post: 4287365" data-attributes="member: 65004">I waded through 5 or so pages of this before I got fed up and had to reply.Regardless of feats, skills, abilities, or levels, a character cannot do something that is impossible for them to do.In other words, if opening a portcullus requires deadlifting 8,000lbs, then NO player character with a strength that isn't well into the super-human range is going to succeed.In other words, not even John McClaine is going to throw a Cadellac through a store window.  Not even Chuck Norris is going to deadlift and then drop-kick a APC.This is up there in silliness with someone asking how many hit points a mountain has and how long it would take him to kill it with his +200 dagger of awesomeness.This is up there in silliness with any sort of rules that say a person could survive a fall from orbit (Spelljammer, I'm looking at you here, prior editions of D&D in general too!)There's just some occasions where common sense has to be a reality check against rules applied in ridiculous circumstances.  This is what makes D&D and other PnP games inherently superior to online games: the presence of a DM who can thwap the player at the table who seriously suggests that their halfling wizard with an 8 strength at level 1, 10 strength at level 30, is going to deadlift an 8,000lb object without using any powers or spells purely based on their +15 modifier due to level.</blockquote>