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<blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 2602449" data-attributes="member: 20805">The tech level has improved the safety of the activity...not enabled the activity.&nbsp; You can make rappelling gear from rope segements.. twists the living daylights out of it, but it works.The so called 'French' rap you wind the rope about your arms and shoulders and slide sideways... a good long sleeve shirt will protect you from a fast rappel down a 70' face in this manner. Only took a month for the rope burn to fade from where my sleeve slipped up&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh&nbsp; &nbsp; :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> If I get the OP's concept, he wants to recreate the scenes from numourous martial arts movies where the Ninja slide down a rope from above and drop into the midsts of thier targets. I see no reason to Fiat this action as non-possible and think that the rules can be tweaked just slightly to provide an accurate representation of this action.The side track about light, sneaking, sound... are just that.. sidetracks, albiet interesting ones.&nbsp;I can see a D20 Flying Kite Ninja Attack as a really cool encounter.An aside.. as to Aron Ralston... anyone stupid enough to go climbing by themselves does not deserve a book deal... or any of the other 'wow, he is so heroic' bull that he has received. Climbing is inherently a dangerous activity and should never be attempted alone.Anyone have official rappeling rules in D20 format?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Primitive Screwhead, post: 2602449, member: 20805"] The tech level has improved the safety of the activity...not enabled the activity. You can make rappelling gear from rope segements.. twists the living daylights out of it, but it works. The so called 'French' rap you wind the rope about your arms and shoulders and slide sideways... a good long sleeve shirt will protect you from a fast rappel down a 70' face in this manner. Only took a month for the rope burn to fade from where my sleeve slipped up :heh: If I get the OP's concept, he wants to recreate the scenes from numourous martial arts movies where the Ninja slide down a rope from above and drop into the midsts of thier targets. I see no reason to Fiat this action as non-possible and think that the rules can be tweaked just slightly to provide an accurate representation of this action. The side track about light, sneaking, sound... are just that.. sidetracks, albiet interesting ones. I can see a D20 Flying Kite Ninja Attack as a really cool encounter. An aside.. as to [b]Aron Ralston[/b]... anyone stupid enough to go climbing by themselves does not deserve a book deal... or any of the other 'wow, he is so heroic' bull that he has received. Climbing is inherently a dangerous activity and should never be attempted alone. Anyone have official rappeling rules in D20 format? [/QUOTE]

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