[Basic] Skill of the week: Climbing

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by johndallman

What uses of Climbing have been strange, funny or awesome in your games?

Not something did happen, but something that I would like to consider benchmarking in terms of skill for the sheer cinematic awesomeness:
Stealthily Climb up a tree near a patrol route, hang down partially (without dropping to the ground) from a branch behind the target, disable the target (e.g. by a triangle choke, or by a grapple-and-backstab of some sort, or by a garotte), then climb back up to full height, taking the unconscious/dead enemy back up with you, to hide it.
Taking the whole disabling affair aside, this will require a Climbing roll at -4, assuming that a human body falls within Heavy encumbrance (-4, the mass limit being able to lift BL×8 with two hands, so barely up to 160lbs for ST10, but 192 lbs with ST11 already). Together with an ordinary tree (+5), it seems doable for a moderately skilled and strong character, but definitely not trivial.