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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8184230" data-attributes="member: 59816">Right, but the trouble with this line of thinking is that there are very little in the way of trees. We're not talking about a forest with a large canopy. Even for monkeys, climbing mostly only takes them upward - if they want to move in other directions, that usually involves jumping.Here's the description from the adventure: The city basin is densely packed with ruined villas and overgrown courtyards. Buildings in Omu are shaped from limestone. Thick, broad-leaved vines engulf most structures, while ferns and thorny bushes choke the streets. Cautious characters can move through the city at a rate of 200 feet every 5 minutes. Even if they throw caution to the wind, the density of the undergrowth makes it tricky to move faster than 200 feet per minute.That last bit is during Exploration, but &quot;cautious&quot; is usually moving at about half-speed, and &quot;caution to the wind&quot; is usually double-speed (here, it seems to be five times as fast instead of four, but whatever). That makes &quot;normal&quot; speed works out to about 10 feet a round, on average - worse than difficult terrain.So think broad-leaved vines, ferns, and thorny bushes. Not exactly easy to climb. You can climb the buildings, and the actual trees (they are also covered in vines).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 8184230, member: 59816"] Right, but the trouble with this line of thinking is that there are very little in the way of [I]trees[/I]. We're not talking about a forest with a large canopy. Even for monkeys, climbing mostly only takes them upward - if they want to move in other directions, that usually involves jumping. Here's the description from the adventure: [I]The city basin is densely packed with ruined villas and overgrown courtyards. Buildings in Omu are shaped from limestone. Thick, broad-leaved vines engulf most structures, while ferns and thorny bushes choke the streets. Cautious characters can move through the city at a rate of 200 feet every 5 minutes. Even if they throw caution to the wind, the density of the undergrowth makes it tricky to move faster than 200 feet per minute.[/I] That last bit is during Exploration, but "cautious" is usually moving at about half-speed, and "caution to the wind" is usually double-speed (here, it seems to be five times as fast instead of four, but whatever). That makes "normal" speed works out to about 10 feet a round, on average - worse than difficult terrain. So think broad-leaved vines, ferns, and thorny bushes. Not exactly easy to climb. You can climb the buildings, and the actual trees (they are also covered in vines). [/QUOTE]

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