Weapons

[Coredump]

You invoke the power, grab the end, and pull. Don't let the pressure off.
We stretched it a mile by having the party rogue grab one end and start walking.
We've used it with a weight to climb down 50 foot towers and it stretched as fast as the grappling hook fell.
Right now, we're calling it "instant" because nobody wants to do the math and find out how many seconds it would take a given object to fall. We just dramatic pause until it hits the ground.

Sounds like my kind of magic. Useful and simple concept.

What level were they when they got it? It sounds like it would be pretty abusable....

 

[ajanders]

Sounds like my kind of magic. Useful and simple concept.
What level were they when they got it? It sounds like it would be pretty abusable....

Fourth...it's something of a MacGuffin, so it's become a signature item for the party.
The fact that everyone in the party but the sorceror is at least slightly scared of it keeps it from being too much abused -- essentially all it's been good for is letting us climb into deeper and deeper holes and the occasional escape from tall towers. And we still have to make the Climb checks to climb it: doing 20 climb checks makes everyone nervous.
Plus the friends of the original owner want it back.
And the enemies of the original owner.
And people who just really like magical ropes.
And the demons they've been binding.
So it's something of a mixed blessing.