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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8201492" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Any human capable of single pull-up (lifting their own body weight off the ground with their arms) can climb a rope.You lift yourself up, raise your legs, and lock your feet around the rope, and then stand up on the rope where your feet are locked in to the rope.Once there, you rest (you can stand on the rope all day with no chance of falling) and then lift yourself up again, and lock.So any adult human in reasonable health and of average strength who is not also morbidly obese can climb a rope.As evidenced by whole platoons of Army recruits, from all walks of life, repeatedly making 30' rope climbs in basic training for centuries, without soldiers repeatedly comically falling off, or even just failing to get to the top.You might have the occasional overweight and unfit recruit that cant make it during basic, but after a few weeks of 'motivation' and 'remedial PT' to help him get the pounds off, he gets up there eventually.(In DnD terms, said recruit has a Strength of 7 and thus a lifting capacity of 210lbs, and weighs over this figure making it impossible for him to lift his own body weight off the ground. A few weeks of remedial PT gets that body weight under 210lbs so he can get up the rope).</blockquote>