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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2262659" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, someone has to write the 'official' house rules, but Skip's articles are optional and not part of the RAW.Skip's house rule on throws is servicable, but I dislike it for the following reasons:1) It requires two dice rolls to resolve rather than one.  I see no reason why you'd need an extra roll, since the capacity to make the throw is covered by the grapple check.2) It makes no allowance for the fact that smaller creatures are easier to throw.  As long as you can lift it, a halfling child and an orc warrior in plate mail are not only thowable the same distance, but because the strength check has a huge random factor, you are just as likely to throw the orc warrior further as not.  I understand that you don't want to get uber-realistic here, but you don't have to be so primitive either.3) Doesn't describe in any detail the consequences of being throw.  Are we to believe that being thrown 20' through the air never does anything but change the square you are in?4) I'm not sure that I buy the idea that you can only throw a foe that is pinned.   That certainly makes throwing an even less attractive option.5) It says nothing about being able to voluntarily throw the opponent less than the maximum distance, and because it doesn't mention it, invariably some player would argue that it can't be done.Still, you'd probably have an easier time convincing someone that Skip's rulings were official than you would convincing them to accept something else.</blockquote>

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