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<blockquote data-quote="hastur_nz" data-source="post: 7159551" data-attributes="member: 40592"><p>No-one here can tell you you're wrong, just offer an opinion. Even old-timer DM's like me are never too old to learn and change, even if it takes much practice.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, personally, in the case of the rope, I'm reminded of the very early Conan story, The Tower of the Elephant. Conan and Taurus use a rope to scale the tower, and... do they pull the rope up after them, leave it behind on purpose, or just forget? It's pretty hard to imagine someone simply forgetting to coil up a rope that they have just climbed...</p><p><a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831h.html" target="_blank">http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831h.html</a> - an excellent story BTW</p><p></p><p>As noted, players are regular joes or janes, most of who have no idea about survival, dungeoneering, swinging a sword, and so on; half the time we are drinking, eating, and so on; what might seem second nature to "the PC", can easily be overlooked by a player. I'm all for players telling me what their characters are doing, but I definitely cut them some slack when it seems obvious what their character would do, even if the player didn't state it; and visa versa when I'm a player. </p><p></p><p>To me, pulling a rope up behind you is 100% the most obvious thing for any adventurer to do, because the risk of something seeing it and/or following you is going to be far greater than the risk of needing it for a quick descent, and most likely it's the only rope you have (we're talking D&D here, not climbing mount Everest). But hey, YMMV.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hastur_nz, post: 7159551, member: 40592"] No-one here can tell you you're wrong, just offer an opinion. Even old-timer DM's like me are never too old to learn and change, even if it takes much practice. Anyway, personally, in the case of the rope, I'm reminded of the very early Conan story, The Tower of the Elephant. Conan and Taurus use a rope to scale the tower, and... do they pull the rope up after them, leave it behind on purpose, or just forget? It's pretty hard to imagine someone simply forgetting to coil up a rope that they have just climbed... [url]http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600831h.html[/url] - an excellent story BTW As noted, players are regular joes or janes, most of who have no idea about survival, dungeoneering, swinging a sword, and so on; half the time we are drinking, eating, and so on; what might seem second nature to "the PC", can easily be overlooked by a player. I'm all for players telling me what their characters are doing, but I definitely cut them some slack when it seems obvious what their character would do, even if the player didn't state it; and visa versa when I'm a player. To me, pulling a rope up behind you is 100% the most obvious thing for any adventurer to do, because the risk of something seeing it and/or following you is going to be far greater than the risk of needing it for a quick descent, and most likely it's the only rope you have (we're talking D&D here, not climbing mount Everest). But hey, YMMV. [/QUOTE]
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