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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6343057" data-attributes="member: 2011">D&D to me is throwing a grappling hook (attached to a rope in my PC's one hand) to the right of a super tough foe standing next to a cliff. As the hook passes the NPC who is hard to hit and is more or less wiping out the party, my PC moves on his other side, the rope wraps around his torso, the hooks swings back towards my PC and the DM rules that I have make a solid D20 roll to throw it well and another solid D20 roll to catch it. I make both rolls and have my PC promptly run off the cliff. The DM then gives the NPC a last ditch saving throw to slip the rope off himself and that fails. As my PC falls, the rope yanks the NPC off the cliff and he falls several hundred feet to his death. Once the foe is falling, my PC lets go of the rope and his Ring of Feather Fall lowers him safely to the ground where he then loots the body.My PC would have looked really silly if this hadn't worked at all, but then again, if the first two rolls worked and the NPC had made his save, my PC would have been at the bottom of the cliff and the other PCs would have died. My PC could have said anything he wanted when he got back to town (assuming to got back to town).The magic of 1E and to some extent later versions for me was the imagination. If an action sounded reasonable, the DM could decide how to adjudicate it and if one made the rolls, some imaginative things could happen. I especially like it when a player comes up with something new and it saves the day, or finds an important clue, or thwarts the villains. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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