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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 8872012" data-attributes="member: 20323">It's a huge bag of &quot;it depends&quot; on how the GM manages info dissemination, foreshadowing, traps, etc.For me personally, the answer almost always is to let the consequences play out &amp; find ways to make failure fun – when I'm doing that, I don't need to introduce special rolls to &quot;save the PCs.&quot;However.I do think there is one place in the rules – Falling – where there should be more ways to save yourself after being pushed off a cliff or failing a check than are currently presented in the rules.Things like grabbing onto a tree root or a vine, grappling a giant bat mid-air, etc. In this instance, I say should because many fantasy books/movies have these sorts of saving-yourself-when-falling-scenes, and for practical table-running reasons it helps minimize the party getting unintentionally divided by large distances in the middle of combat. I introduced some bespoke &quot;falling reaction&quot; house rules for a scene (the aarakocra cliffs in Tomb of Annihilation) where there were risks of a 500+ foot fall, and they worked nicely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 8872012, member: 20323"] It's a huge bag of "it depends" on how the GM manages info dissemination, foreshadowing, traps, etc. For me personally, the answer almost always is to let the consequences play out & find ways to make failure fun – when I'm doing that, I don't need to introduce special rolls to "save the PCs." However. I do think there is one place in the rules – Falling – where there [I]should[/I] be more ways to save yourself after being pushed off a cliff or failing a check than are currently presented in the rules. Things like grabbing onto a tree root or a vine, grappling a giant bat mid-air, etc. In this instance, I say [I]should [/I]because many fantasy books/movies have these sorts of saving-yourself-when-falling-scenes, and for practical table-running reasons it helps minimize the party getting unintentionally divided by large distances in the middle of combat. I introduced some bespoke "falling reaction" house rules for a scene (the aarakocra cliffs in Tomb of Annihilation) where there were risks of a 500+ foot fall, and they worked nicely. [/QUOTE]

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