Swimming up waterfalls!

[MerakSpielman]

You DARE post an old cyberstreet.com link?

 

[Epametheus]

I fully approve of the horribly over-the-top skill checks. If you ban those, then there's no point in pointing more than 20 or so ranks in skills that aren't opposed rolls.

Most of my group was horrified by the ability to use Diplomacy to make fanatics out of people, though. Probably because my non-epic bard could already pass the check

Anyways, most <i>monsters</i> can't pass a DC80 to 100 skill check in the first, let alone a mere mortal. When your skill bonus is something that's beyond the power of a great wyrm gold dragon, let alone beyond the power of a normal human, I think it's perfectly okay to break the laws of physics and normality.

 

[Henry]

When your skill bonus is something that's beyond the power of a great wyrm gold dragon, let alone beyond the power of a normal human, I think it's perfectly okay to break the laws of physics and normality.

Or to put in another way:

Small Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Small Boy: There is no spoon.

 

[Trainz]

No one has ever , ever walked away from falling from a plane without a chute...lived yeah, but never ever walked away, much less be able to get up and do it again.

Yes.

On a documentary I saw a few years back on Discovery, during world war two an allied bomber was shot by germans. With no parachutes, the plane was hurtling to it's destruction, the sole survivor decided to jump out the plane, at 2000 feet above ground.

He hit a few tree branches and a slight slope by the side of the road. He got bruises and scratches, and a few lightly broken bones, but he STOOD UP and started walking, only to be captured by german soldiers.

While he was in captivity, he was very well treated by his captors, who where amazed by his luck.

When I saw the documentary, he was standing on the grass in front of the tree line where that happened and was telling his story.