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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2048401" data-attributes="member: 26473">An untrained Balance check is a Dex check.Using a rope to make a traverse is not the same as rigging a safety line. I disagree that anyone can do it correctly, which is why - *ta-da!* - there's a skill for it.I was describing some of the in-game examples of the Use Rope skill that I've GM'd, not trying to create a list of unique examples or even "a list of examples that Saeviomagy didn't think of." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Let's not, for the sake of brevity.That's how you see it, and if you GM then that's how you run it. I don't agree with a number of your presumptions regarding the use of other skills as substituting for Use Rope, so I use the skill pretty much as written.I think that you take a much more liberal approach to making and doing things than I do when I GM. I see a skill like Use Rope in terms of doing things when the character doesn't have the luxury of time, when s/he needs to get it right in a hurry - in other words, those situations when taking twenty is not a viable option. It's an action skill, not an out-of-action skill (or what you would call a roleplaying skill? did I understand you correctly there?)</blockquote>