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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al the Absentminded" data-source="post: 3029455" data-attributes="member: 42452">Fair. Somewhat. Lowbies should know to run and hide.My second serious DM did something like this. The party - first level - was approached by a random giant. He threw rocks at us - but aimed to scare us, rather than kill us. A failed bluff attempt later, he was forcing us into his cave, where he hoisted us into a giant suspended hotplate (suspended by a big rope going over a pulley, the other end tied to a big rock on the floor. The giant built up the fire under us, but ran out of wood before the fire was hot enough, so he hauled us up to 20' above the floor and left to go chop more wood.Being a fairly stupid giant, he hadn't stripped us, and several of the party members had rope. The master plan was to cut up some of our rope, loop our ropes around the big rope (courtesy of the party rogue) and kind-of slide down while holding on for dear life. Several strength checks later most of the party was on the ground.Except my Str 6 Wizard. Who decided that the best way to survive this was to count on the strength of the rope rather than his arms. He knotted his end-sections of rope around his armpits (I did not have rope-use, so the DM made the Int roll in secret to figure out if I came up with a knot that would last 10 seconds with my characters weight on it.) and cast off. We all survived, and got 1/10 of the giant's listed XP for successfully escaping (if we'd managed to kill him or ally with him we'd have gotten full xp, but he was still out there in an area we'd have to cross at least 3 more times, so we hadn't really overcome the challenge).-Albert the Absentminded</blockquote>

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