More like an up hakama shot, except that the fabric that would have formed the crotch has been dissolved. As for kilt, no, it isn’t what is/n’t worn underneath that makes a kilt, it is the lack of seams.
Virtually every single Pen & Paper fantasy RPG (be it D&D or more recently Pathfinder) character I have ever had, has always purchased 50ft of rope and a grappling hook as part of his starting gear.
I’ve have however broken this tradition with my current character. He does not have 50ft of rope nor a grappling hook. In my more than 15 years of off and on play, I don’t think a single party has ever had need of that combination. We’ve used rope on occasion, but I can’t for the life of me remember EVER using a grappling hook.
We’ve tied up people, rappelled down walls/cliffs, but we’ve never needed to use a rope & grappling hook to go UP something.
Still… It’s one of those things where someone in the group should have it…. just in case.
Most amazing use of random gear carried we’ve ever had happen? My buddy defeated a large water elemental by throwing 15 pounds of soap into it. The DM said the soap broke the surface tension of the water enough that it couldn’t hold itself together anymore. My friend’s reason for carrying 15lbs of soap? He said “it was cheap and I had extra cash.”
I buy rope when my character can carry it without increased encumberance.
I know a guy who has a standard loadout of mundane equipment that generally includes 100′ of rope, twenty feet of chain, a grappling hook, a crowbar, a shovel, and ten square yards of canvas. We usually use all of it. The most ingenious use was probably when he used the spikes from his climbing kit, the canvas, and the chain to build an alarm across the mouth of a cave that giant spiders kept coming out of.
Rope’s an absolute must-have – not just for climbing, but also for the occasional prisoner, rigging traps, etc. But yeah, I can’t remember when I last used a gappling hook.
Mind you, the character I mostly play these days has boots that let him walk up walls. Climbing gear is *mostly* redundant…
Grappling hooks have uses. Damage Resistant flying wvyerny thing with an invulnerable underbelly blasting you? Attach a grappling hook to a bow and pull it down!
Granted, this is more for games where you don’t have magic that can do the exact same thing…
For fantasy settings, I have *attempted* to use a grappling hook quite a lot. In most cases to get over plot walls put up by the GM, which meant that ropes mysteriously snapped, hooks broke / came untied, or enemies suddenly appeared with the specific purpose of cutting the rope.
This happened with such regularity that it became more of a plot wall detector, than a device for actually getting over walls.
My PCs use ’em regularly. But then, right after “there will be a sea voyage,” one of the things my players have learned to predict is “there will be dungeons built along a vertical axis.” Comes right before “there will be lycanthropes,” although so far my PCs have never had to battle were-walruses on a ship with no ladders…
Reasoning:
When you must ask where the adventurers keep the rope as it has not previously been seen, then you are most likely the victim of ‘magic bag’ or ‘mysterious cart’, items that conceal as much mundane as it can with out ruining the silhouette of the modern adventurer, never draws notice and doesn’t stop working if you forget to feed the livestock pulling it.
The Society of DMs out to Jack Your Day has held these truths to be cannon:
No adventurer shall be made to explain where the 50′ pole, 100′ rope, or clearly to large for the bag grappling hook goes when not in use. This is termed ‘Highlander Space’, in reference to the movies and T.V. shows of the same name where one can pull a whole sword out of ones posterior -as- everyone can clearly see it is not hidden in the dramatically billowing cloak and no pants have been torn. Said ‘Highlander Space’ is treated as a duel sided device. It simultaneously holds all items in suspended safety, preventing vials from breaking and food from being ruined when 300′ of gear are unceremoniously tossed in with the loot. On the other side, this item also prevents the need for all adventurers to have need to relieve themselves. Ever. This is a standard enchantment on most world inhabitants, gained as a right of passage. The duel nature effect activated when one decides to ‘S@%#W this S#!T,’ picks up a weapon and starts swinging at monsters.
Unless your DM enjoys an logistics nightmare revelry.
I know I do.
for a second I thouht all of you talking about upskirt shots meant madeline and I was like “if you can’t actually see whats under there it doesnt count
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Rusty knows when it’s time to take a break.
Completely unnecessary upskirt shot.
It’s an up-kilt shot, because he’s not wearing anything underneath.
More like an up hakama shot, except that the fabric that would have formed the crotch has been dissolved. As for kilt, no, it isn’t what is/n’t worn underneath that makes a kilt, it is the lack of seams.
Shit is about to get done.
Cube is good at get-things-done.
Besides, this is his chance to make an entrance, to make up for the opening when Madeline intervened.
Banzai? Or jello bouncy. And I have a sudden, gawdawful vision of an orcish Miss Piggy shouting “Hiiiyaaaa!”
Virtually every single Pen & Paper fantasy RPG (be it D&D or more recently Pathfinder) character I have ever had, has always purchased 50ft of rope and a grappling hook as part of his starting gear.
I’ve have however broken this tradition with my current character. He does not have 50ft of rope nor a grappling hook. In my more than 15 years of off and on play, I don’t think a single party has ever had need of that combination. We’ve used rope on occasion, but I can’t for the life of me remember EVER using a grappling hook.
We’ve tied up people, rappelled down walls/cliffs, but we’ve never needed to use a rope & grappling hook to go UP something.
Still… It’s one of those things where someone in the group should have it…. just in case.
Most amazing use of random gear carried we’ve ever had happen? My buddy defeated a large water elemental by throwing 15 pounds of soap into it. The DM said the soap broke the surface tension of the water enough that it couldn’t hold itself together anymore. My friend’s reason for carrying 15lbs of soap? He said “it was cheap and I had extra cash.”
I buy rope when my character can carry it without increased encumberance.
I know a guy who has a standard loadout of mundane equipment that generally includes 100′ of rope, twenty feet of chain, a grappling hook, a crowbar, a shovel, and ten square yards of canvas. We usually use all of it. The most ingenious use was probably when he used the spikes from his climbing kit, the canvas, and the chain to build an alarm across the mouth of a cave that giant spiders kept coming out of.
Rope’s an absolute must-have – not just for climbing, but also for the occasional prisoner, rigging traps, etc. But yeah, I can’t remember when I last used a gappling hook.
Mind you, the character I mostly play these days has boots that let him walk up walls. Climbing gear is *mostly* redundant…
Grappling hooks have uses. Damage Resistant flying wvyerny thing with an invulnerable underbelly blasting you? Attach a grappling hook to a bow and pull it down!
Granted, this is more for games where you don’t have magic that can do the exact same thing…
For fantasy settings, I have *attempted* to use a grappling hook quite a lot. In most cases to get over plot walls put up by the GM, which meant that ropes mysteriously snapped, hooks broke / came untied, or enemies suddenly appeared with the specific purpose of cutting the rope.
This happened with such regularity that it became more of a plot wall detector, than a device for actually getting over walls.
My PCs use ’em regularly. But then, right after “there will be a sea voyage,” one of the things my players have learned to predict is “there will be dungeons built along a vertical axis.” Comes right before “there will be lycanthropes,” although so far my PCs have never had to battle were-walruses on a ship with no ladders…
As a GM with nearly 30 years of gaming under my belt, i feel I must say –
WHY NOT?
I approve this plot; I endorse this plot; hell, I may just steal it…
I hear the horn of the General Lee right now.
But how is Cube holding the rope???
Where did Cube get the rope?
Sorry friend, RPGPD, we’re here to revoke your adventurer card and suspend your dice.
Verdict: Time Served.
Reasoning:
When you must ask where the adventurers keep the rope as it has not previously been seen, then you are most likely the victim of ‘magic bag’ or ‘mysterious cart’, items that conceal as much mundane as it can with out ruining the silhouette of the modern adventurer, never draws notice and doesn’t stop working if you forget to feed the livestock pulling it.
The Society of DMs out to Jack Your Day has held these truths to be cannon:
No adventurer shall be made to explain where the 50′ pole, 100′ rope, or clearly to large for the bag grappling hook goes when not in use. This is termed ‘Highlander Space’, in reference to the movies and T.V. shows of the same name where one can pull a whole sword out of ones posterior -as- everyone can clearly see it is not hidden in the dramatically billowing cloak and no pants have been torn. Said ‘Highlander Space’ is treated as a duel sided device. It simultaneously holds all items in suspended safety, preventing vials from breaking and food from being ruined when 300′ of gear are unceremoniously tossed in with the loot. On the other side, this item also prevents the need for all adventurers to have need to relieve themselves. Ever. This is a standard enchantment on most world inhabitants, gained as a right of passage. The duel nature effect activated when one decides to ‘S@%#W this S#!T,’ picks up a weapon and starts swinging at monsters.
Unless your DM enjoys an logistics nightmare revelry.
I know I do.
So now I will be adventuring without a license?
Okay, that’s quite possibly the most badass thing.
She is *so* cute in those first two panels, I just want to reach into the comic and give her a hug 🙂
for a second I thouht all of you talking about upskirt shots meant madeline and I was like “if you can’t actually see whats under there it doesnt count