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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 501262" data-attributes="member: 259">Funny example -- in a recent game, a player wanted to throw her grappling hook up at the roc's foot, climb the rope as the roc flew away, shimmy up the side of the roc, and begin beating on its head.3E made it fairly easy for me to resolve this:  I ruled it as a normal ranged attack roll with a weapon with which she was unfamiliar, and she missed.  If I did it again, I'd rule it as a ranged touch attack roll against a medium-sized opponent (since she was aiming at the talon, not the whole bird).This precipitated a conversation in our group similar to what you're talking about:  the player who missed with her grapple was a little sad about it, because frankly, it woulda been cool.  Of course, she also probably woulda died:  she was already badly hurt, and the roc could've torn her into pieces.Because we DON'T play like we're 14 anymore, we try to avoid PC death.  So we decided that in the future, I'll as a DM make such attacks likelier to succeed, but that I won't make them any less risky. I will warn players if they're trying something obviously suicidal, though, giving them a chance to back out.***********More on-topic, that sounds like a blast, Doctor!  In January, we're going to leave off our regular, ultra-cautious PCs in RttToEE and start playing a bunch of low-level treasure-hunting maniacs, fully expecting to die over and over and over.  It should be great fun, of the sort you're talking about.Daniel</blockquote>

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