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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8194570" data-attributes="member: 71699">Emphasis mine. I feel like you are stating a reasonable position. You believe the RAW entails X. You've stated why you feel that belief is justified.I believe the RAW is necessarily ambiguous, in that it offers a list that is necessarily incomplete. You appear to infer from the examples a secret rule to the effect that difficulties must "involve environmental factors". The lead game designer says that 5e has no secret rules. Therefore I believe that what is crucial about the RAW is only this - a climbing check is not required just because a character is climbing, and a climbing check is required if a DM describes the situation to be difficult.Something I emphatically do not think, is that the RAW calls for checks only if a surface is "slippery", or has "few handholds" notwithstanding that I might find your position more plausible if you did. Which is to say, in order to maintain your position, you ought to believe that the only case in which a DM may call for a check - at their option - is if a surface is slippery or has few handholds. Is that what you in fact believe?</blockquote>