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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 2987946" data-attributes="member: 20805">If I had to cross a short pile of scree like this during an excusion in the mountains and *had* to get the donkey's across... Well, I would already have plenty of rope and some good pitons. I would tie in the rope to the wall on both sides.. with the best climber being the one to venture across first before tying the rope in on the far side.. Then I would manufacture slings for the donkeys... it may require a couple trips and some high 'handle animal' checks, but the rope guide and sling {with a lead-line to drag the donkey across if need be} would get them safely across.  Game mechanics it would require a number of Use Rope checks, most of which you could Take 10 with, a number of climb checks {to tie into the rock face} which you should allow a second check to test the tie-in without risking life or limb { orgrant a +2 to the check instead of doing multiple checks}, then Animal Handling and STR checks to get the donkeys across. As long as the party has enough rope to cut up and use, a small scree field should be relatively easy to by-pass, altho it will take time. {Take 10 with Use rope costs 5 to 10 minutes per donkey/PC, Climb checks to install tie-in should take 10 minutes per side, each cooperative crossing could take 5 minutes, an uncooperative crossing would take upwards of 15 minutes.}Intelligent use of blind-folds and seperating the donkeys {so they don't freak out by wathcing thier buddies slip off the path..} would be wise.All in all you could turn this into a fairly decent non-combat encounter <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />{See.. I got sleep!}The hard part for you is being able to stack modifiers for what the party comes up with. Good ideas should have some mechanical contributions but you don't want to turn it into an exercise in math.</blockquote>

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