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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9373649" data-attributes="member: 93670">No just a different scenario and perhaps a particular mechanical point of relevance that needs illumination. AFAIK, every edition of d&d has listed rope prices  in 50 foot increments... As such it should be impossible to have less than 50 feet if rope unless the rope has been damaged or is also being used to restrain other individuals.  That right there clears away the TV/movie scenario of several inches of rope tied around the wrists to be slipped out of unless some additional thing is done and that's critically important. There is no problem created if Bob can't untie himself because Alice can untie Bob and Bob can untie Cindy.With that out of the way and hypothetically codified in house rule or RAW where 50ft of rope can over N uninterrupted minutes perfectly tie up one helpless medium sized creature or two tied together with combined DC ## to escape you have a scenario where any restraint needs an interesting interaction with others rather than a straight action & die roll.  It also has the benefit of giving value to the party carrying more than one rope. It also avoids the obnoxious back and forth where Alice wants to quickly tie up someone with trivial time and cooperation/risk as a single action while gaining the results of heavy duty shinbari  while Bob (or the bbeg/local guards want to invest the time it takes going for heavy duty shinbari type restraint because he knows his oc  has no skill in rope yet has other skills that stacked the deck many times over in his favor but all of that gets tossed aside by a single action die roll.</blockquote>

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