Who can climb?

[MithrasRahl]

Because I think the modifiers in this situation would be so high that it would require a 20 to climb and then attack the party. Rather than take that route, I think it would be much more interesting for the Worgs to do something like cover the goblins, ram the tree, etc.

 

[Tetsubo]

Heck, by the rules an Elephant has a +10 bonus to Climb.

Beware the Deadly Cliffdwelling Pachyderms!

 

[nittanytbone]

I'd let the Worg try at the -8 penalty.

However, it would be FAR more efficient for them to run and jump. I imagine it would work mechanically:

Move Action: Move and Jump (jump check included in movement)
Standard Action: Attack (perhaps a grapple check to tear the PC out of the tree)
Not An Action: Falling from the height of the jump check, taking falling damage as appropriate if a jump/tumble check to mitigate it is not sufficient. This falling "movement" will likely provoke an AoO from the PC attacked.

 

[roguerouge]

If I recall The Hobbit correctly, worgs can't climb trees. They lit a fire under the dwarves, Bilbo, and Gandalf.

 

[Fenris]

If I recall The Hobbit correctly, worgs can't climb trees. They lit a fire under the dwarves, Bilbo, and Gandalf.

Fifteen birds in five fir trees

Now if Gandalf could go mano-a-mano against The Balrog of Moria, why was he running from goblins?

 

[billd91]

Fifteen birds in five fir trees

Now if Gandalf could go mano-a-mano against The Balrog of Moria, why was he running from goblins?

He didn't have Cleave?
Them goblins had levels?
The RPG rules Gandalf was made under don't have scaling hit points?

 

[Primitive Screwhead]

Fifteen birds in five fir trees

Now if Gandalf could go mano-a-mano against The Balrog of Moria, why was he running from goblins?

Because Gandalf is a DMPC?

And you beat me to the quote

What shall we do with the funny little things?

 

[MarkB]

As I recall, there's only one species of wild dog that's noted to be good at climbing trees, and it's a lot smaller and lighter than a worg.

It could be worse - the one time I was in a party that hid up a tree to escape a pack of canines, our pursuers turned out to be yeth hounds (note the movement modes).

 

[Thurbane]

 

[Dross]

Here is the situation: The players are being attacked by a pack of goblin worg riders. The PCs climb the nearest tree and start shooting their crossbows down at the goblins. The goblins respond by dismounting and returning fire with their crossbows, while letting their worgs climb the tree for an attack.

Protests ensue. The players argue that worgs cannot climb trees because they lack claw attacks. Claw attacks, they reason, mean that the animal possesses enough manual dexterity to climb.

I counter by saying that anybody can climb as long as they have limbs. I am even willing to concede that creatures without claw attacks can have a penalty to their climb check, but I think it is completely unreasonable to say that they cannot climb at all.

What do you guys think?

going on that reasoning: What PC has claw attacks?

I'd go with a negative climb, or use the jump as suggested. And given the intelligence of Worgs, they should have some idea of a way to get to the PC's.