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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8423034" data-attributes="member: 6778210">Yeah, if you wanted to do some sort of ruling where someone could hold onto a sword while climbing, you could just put on a harsh modifier (+2/+5, maybe dependent on the size of the weapon). Hell, if you wanted to you could have someone swing a two-handed weapon and make a crazy Balance check to keep their feet in place if they so desire. Failure would be, to put it lightly, bad, but you can totally make that sort of ruling. I probably wouldn't (or I'd be pretty clear that this is not a good thing to attempt), but there's no rules preventing it.Same with the Dandy feat: what it does is lock in a way for the player to do something, rather than the GM making something up. If you want to change a rumor and don't have the Dandy archetype, you just have to wheel and deal with the GM in a way that the Dandy simply does not. That's the benefit of the feat: it's not that it necessarily prevents other players from using those sorts of actions, but rather it guarantees that player from being able to do it.Another good example of this is <a href="https://2e.aonprd.com/Feats.aspx?ID=2105" target="_blank">A Home in Every Port</a>. You can find free lodging if you spend 8 hours in a town or village. There's nothing that says you can't do that with other players as a matter of course; you spent 8 hours as a cost and now you get free lodging for a night. But they never get that guarantee, while someone with that feat does.The old guys in my group often tell about the one time in a wargame that someone had a gun pulled on them (it ended with no one hurt and that guy obviously hasn't gamed with them in 30+ years since he had real problems), and it's always been a topic of discussion as to what would be the thing that causes you to draw on a guy.I wouldn't do it for that, but it'd be close. And I would make that fact known to my player if they wanted to do that again.</blockquote>

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