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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5622167" data-attributes="member: 42582">Well, however I want to do it (let's say I'm going to fire a 10-dice lightning bolt into the ice that covers the ceiling), neither the DMG nor the module tells me what the mechanical resolution is.&nbsp;Hang on - so it's plausible that my dwarf can hack a giant to death with a hand axe, but I can't push it back? There seems to me to be variable thresholds of plausibility being applied here.And what if I use an Enlarge spell, or my ranger's pet copper dragon, or my MUs charmed giant, or whatever the relevant Bigby's spell is (does the slippery ice enhance this?)? There are a pretty good range of options available in AD&amp;D. Both the module and the DMG leave me on my own, though. I don't infer from that that those options are ruled out - just that the books aren't going to cover everything, even fairly forseeable stuff (I mean there's a cliff with 100' plus drops all around the Rift - they must have foreseen that pushing would be tried).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5622167, member: 42582"] Well, however I want to do it (let's say I'm going to fire a 10-dice lightning bolt into the ice that covers the ceiling), neither the DMG nor the module tells me what the mechanical resolution is. Hang on - so it's plausible that my dwarf can hack a giant to death with a hand axe, but I can't push it back? There seems to me to be variable thresholds of plausibility being applied here. And what if I use an Enlarge spell, or my ranger's pet copper dragon, or my MUs charmed giant, or whatever the relevant Bigby's spell is (does the slippery ice enhance this?)? There are a pretty good range of options available in AD&D. Both the module and the DMG leave me on my own, though. I don't infer from that that those options are ruled out - just that the books aren't going to cover everything, even fairly forseeable stuff (I mean there's a cliff with 100' plus drops all around the Rift - they must have foreseen that pushing would be tried). [/QUOTE]

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