[CONAN] Swinging by a Rope

[Supplement Four]

What skill would you use if you wanted your character to swing by a vine from tree limb to tree limb, Tarzan style? Or, maybe you've tossed a rope around a bush growing out of the side of the mountain, and you use it to swing across the chasm.

What skill? Jump? Use Rope? Climb?

 

[Nyarly]

Climb only if it is difficult to hold the rope / vine.

Use Rope only to fix the rope (e.g. you throw it like a lasso or with a grappling hook) before the swing.

I'd make it simple and use Jump:

Calculate the Jump DC normally and then halve it because you swing on the rope / vine.

But, I can easily imagine to swing across a very wide chasm (e.g. 80+ ft.). So even quartering the DC doesn't seem too far out.