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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 923297" data-attributes="member: 3929">Interesting skill checks?The paladin, ranger and I (the barbarian) had to scale down a 400 foot cliff, with only about 75 feet of rope. The DM said there were ledges here and there, and a 75 foot rope, after being tied to two of the three people would have enough slack to reach them all. We just needed to make 10 climb checks a piece.Needless to say, we all took our armor off, and decided that I would carry it; I was supposed to be the anchor if anyone fell. They tied the rope to me, and began to lower me down over  the edge... and both failed their initial STR check. So I fell 50 feet. Luckily, they recovered and caught me before I pulled the ranger over the cliff to our deaths.I anchor myself to the ledge, and the paladin begins to climb down the rope held taught by the ranger at the top... and fails his climb check. So he starts plummeting to his death. Only to be saved by me who made DC 20 DEX and STR checks. Whew!Ranger's turn. Starts climbing and [drumroll] fails his climb check. I fail a DEX check to catch him, so the ranger shoots past us on the ledge to fall about 80 feet altogether. The paladin however, makes his DC 22 STR check to hold me back from falling, and stops the ranger from going all the way down. At this point, we're thinking: "Hey, this is going pretty quickly, why don't we just keep doing it this way all the way down?"So we climb/freefall all the way to the bottom of the cliff without much of a problem. Unless you think it a problem to be making STR and DEX checks every other minute to save your buddy from falling to a grizly death. Heh.Moral of the story: have a friggin wizard in the party who can cast Levitate!</blockquote>

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