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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9061202" data-attributes="member: 29398">My reply as DM to that would go more like &quot;Avoiding the spikes completely is next to impossble; but roll me a d20 - the higher you roll, the luckier you are in missing them.&quot;&nbsp; And I'd make it a gradated roll, with a low roll meaning the jumper takes full damage as if falling in (and a 1 probably also meaning the jumper is pinned on the spikes and cannot now move without taking boatloads more damage), a reasonable roll meaning some damage but less than full, and a 20 meaning no damage at all.If it becomes obvious the player is acting on mis-heard or mis-spoken info I'll repeat the description and add clarification if needed.&nbsp; But yeah, if someone wants to try for that one-in-a-million longshot play, who am I to say no?(and as a player I try these sort of hope-and-prayer extreme-risk extreme-reward plays far more often than my long-suffering character would probably prefer) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9061202, member: 29398"] My reply as DM to that would go more like "Avoiding the spikes completely is next to impossble; but roll me a d20 - the higher you roll, the luckier you are in missing them." And I'd make it a gradated roll, with a low roll meaning the jumper takes full damage as if falling in (and a 1 probably also meaning the jumper is pinned on the spikes and cannot now move without taking boatloads more damage), a reasonable roll meaning some damage but less than full, and a 20 meaning no damage at all. If it becomes obvious the player is acting on mis-heard or mis-spoken info I'll repeat the description and add clarification if needed. But yeah, if someone wants to try for that one-in-a-million longshot play, who am I to say no? (and as a player I try these sort of hope-and-prayer extreme-risk extreme-reward plays far more often than my long-suffering character would probably prefer) :) [/QUOTE]

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