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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8114691" data-attributes="member: 3400">The Monster Manual will tell you that having a climbing speed means you don't need to spend extra movement to climb. It doesn't say that you don't have to make climbing checks for situations that warrant them.The advice on strength (athletics) suggests that you can require a roll, DM's option, for various things that are particularly difficult like dangerous hazards or someone trying to pull or knock the character off the climbing surface. I don't see any reason having a climbing speed would necessarily immunize them from situations like those. And having advantage on those checks would be nice to have.As a DM, I wouldn't ask for a climbing check on a character with a climbing speed either... under normal circumstances. But I'd probably even roll a spider's check if someone explicitly tried to knock them off a wall.</blockquote>