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I feel like Grace started out pretty shy in the first episodes, but with time she's getting more and more confident and soon the channel will change the its name to "Grace World Destroyer (and Bob)".

Something dnd doesn't account for (or mostly doesn't) is strength vs. proportional strength. So Bob is really good at climbing walls/ropes because his is light, but his absolute strength based on how much he can lift is low. Some dnd rules like carrying capacity do take into account creature size, but those are broad categories that don't distinguish between small and medium creatures. I like the CoC way of having a score for Strength and Size from which speed is determined.

As an avid rock climber I had just assumed they had to be talking about a ladder with how fast those speeds were!

I have been climbing for 7 years and currently run an ongoing D&D game with a bunch of my climber friends so I was especially looking forward to this video! Some things to note, because I also have informally tried to challenge myself to climb 15 feet in 6 seconds and other speed challenges: - I was able to do 15 feet in 6 seconds BUT only on what I would consider easier rated walls (V1-V2) for myself on a boulder wall (with no rope). On top rope I was able to do it on walls up to the 5.9 rating. Also I was wearing climbing shoes and had chalk. Both are tools specifically designed to enhance your climbing which a normal adventurer probably wouldn't have. Since adventurers wear boots and may be wearing gloves, these actually inhibit climbing and make it harder. (In fact we joked that the Boots of Climbing magic item is actually just a pair of broken in climbing shoes). - New climbers or those who don't climb often have their hands shredded and often find themselves in pain from the friction that rough holds give. An average climber's hands have more callouses that protect the hands making it a lot easier to climb. - I also am able to clear a 40 foot speed climbing wall in around 11 seconds. This is only because speed climbing walls are standardized and the same anywhere you go. Essentially you climb the same exact wall over and over and over and memorize the movements to get muscle memory and a faster climb. Speed climbing walls are generally around 50ft high and competitors easily can clear it in 6-7 seconds with the world record being 5.2 seconds! I 100% agree with your disposition in this video and that the climbing rules in D&D are really ambitious. I was able to do it, only because I have years of experience, proper gear and equipment for aid, and overall work out the specific muscles friendly to climbing more than an average adventurer probably would. Additionally adventurers are waaay more athletic in a general sense, they are carrying gear, hiking miles, fighting, and wearing clothing that is not compatible with climbing like boots and gloves. That being said, there is a huge blend in community between climbers and D&D (and other TTRPG games) where I am from! I absolutely love this series and its always fun getting to watch your favorite content creators shedding light on what you love! Thank you for this!

My theory: I think Bob may actually be a Hobgoblin, but one of peace, in touch with his Fey roots. Fighter? Probably samurai; he's so calm, so in tune with nature. Stephen the Animal? A Bugbear, perhaps? Big, strong, unseen, but often heard, always in stealth mode behind the camera. The Bugbear Rogue is formidable, and comfortable in his blanket. Grace? ...Goblin Warlock seems pretty spot on. She is cunning, just waiting for her chance to strike and tell us not to build. What are her true goals? No one knows...not even her. Great video! The dedication to putting the PHB rules through its paces are incredible, thank you all so much!

I'm actually kind of amazed at how many of these are very accurate! Makes you wonder if WOTC did very similar tests. Imagine Jeremy Crawford struggling over that wall 😂

Charisma score: go out and try to make friends with a complete stranger. Then ask that stranger later how well they did!

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I like that you finished it by standing right next to 'Climbing wall closed, do not use' sign like rebels!

The production value on this series keeps going up! It's great. Would you consider your characters to be proficient in Athletics? You at least seem to know how to use a "climbing kit".

For charisma scores, there are many games that rely a on bluffing that test your deception, performance persuasion. E.g. Sheriff of Nottingham, Liars Dice or Spoof.

Charisma, there's the easy tests (Deception, Intimidation, Persuasion), which might be best tested against unsuspecting (but willing?) subjects. Performance should be fairly easy; just pick a talent, and show it off the best you can. You could also test calm under pressure, how you handle stress.

Singing is part of charisma, So karaoke night it is.

The wall climb is a good demo of how the d20 roll matters. Someone with higher strength getting a lower roll is like trying to climb with poor form.

Ideas for charisma. 1) trying to get a discount on an item at a random store 2) dressing up (or down) and see if people in a public space look at you 3) saying a joke to a random person and getting their reaction 4) trying to sell a random person a worthless type object 5) smile 😁 at someone and trying to get them to smile back

10:00 Bob: has firmly rooted tree Also Bob: Lets tie the rope to a canoe!

Watching you guys climb. And there are no coniferous trees. They have branches lower down and make for better climbing. Amazing skill everyone and a great video again!!!

Goblins have 30 ft. movement speed, though. 5e PC races with 25 ft. walking speed include: Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings, Aarakocra, and Grung (although Grungs also have a climbing speed of 25 ft.). Maybe she's one of those races instead? I'd say she's not stocky enough to be a dwarf, but perhaps she's a halfling or a gnome? I'd say most likely a halfling since they don't have darkvision.

I've always ruled it that going straight up reduces you to a crawl and climbing gear gives you advantage on the check

Time to calculate Bob's charisma score off of how many of us he can get to sign up for dScryb

Charisma test should be giving compliments to strangers and see how many smiles you can rack up. Then just normalize the values between 0-20 : ) Side note, I never really liked the naming of "charisma" since it gives most people the idea of schmoozing someone when we also use it to intimidate! And it makes even less sense in the context of spell casting for sorcerers and such. I like to use "willpower" like Star Wars when I describe it to new players to give it the full breadth it deserves.

Charisma should be a persuasion of people to say hi to your camera or take a flyer, how many people you can convince of a lie about your self, and showing a short clip to several people of you trying to intimidate them and ask for a rating of 1-10/1-20 The more people who you calculate their score, the more accurate you can be.

you guys are adorable. Thanks for doing this whole series! Good stuff! p.s. I'm also an avid climber and have many issues with D&D rules around climbing. However, I love how easy they are to run... So, I simply bite my tongue and keep gaming. hehe

Thanks as always for the content, glad you guys are staying safe as you do each challenge!

You guys are awesome and the fun you have making these is palpable, never stop.

Yess great video! For a charisma video, maybe a structured debate for persuasion, and trying to intimidate each other with just the words you're saying and how you're saying them? That's definitely a tough one though, excited to see what you guys do with that!!

TROVE This video series (and the channel too!) has been one of my favorite recent finds. Keep up the great investigations!!

It would be interesting if only certain classes actually gained climbing as a proficiency. Great video, guys. 😀

My appreciation for your fun and interesting content continues to *climb* ever higher!

Love the videos man!!!

Trove I love all of these videos. Keep up the great work!

TROVE Another great demonstration! Thank you for making these videos 😄

Really been enjoying this series, it’s a real treasure TROVE of amazing and insightful videos!

Trove!!! Happy Today, Bob and Grace!!

I love these videos! They put the entire game into perspective.

Trove Always appreciate your informative videos and pleasant demeanor. 👍

8:29 That's a solid dismount by Grace. I like how naturally you all come off on camera.

Few things are more entertaining than seeing you test out these things man. You're awesome.

This remembered me seeing my father, when he was like 40, climbing a tree, like that one Bob failed, like it was nothing. I thought "I will be like him when I grow up" but looks like I failed miserably

TROVE! Thanks for all the vídeos, Bob!

I'm excited for the TROVE of knowledge you give us!

Trove. Really enjoying this series, keep up the great work!

I absolutely love these IRL speeds and stuff videos!!!

TROVE! I really like this series you guys have been doing. :)

TROVE Thanks for the wonderful video Bob. Appreciate your work.

TROVE love your channel. Critical in me picking up d&d and becoming a dm during the pandemic.

For Charisma try convincing strangers to help you in something that takes a few minutes, maybe holding some item while you're working with it, something to do with paint?

Awesome video! Trove!

Trove! Great video guys!

This really is quite the treasure trove of info. Implementing the weapons homebrew with my group and they seem to enjoy it. Cant wait to see what all comes next with the charisma. I would recommend something but ive definitely got a negative modifier.

TROVE I love you guys’ videos!

TROVE!!! Love the video, love the merch. Will be buying merch regardless of the win ❤️

Trove Great content lately, keep it up.

Trove - also another excellent video, great to see these concepts played out. Thanks Bob!

Poor Grace. She seemed so embarrassed by that wall kicking her butt lol

I’m new to DnD in my 40s. Your videos are very helpful and help expand how I can approach the game. I end up DMing but this sort of stuff helps me work with the PCs to understand things.

Great video You really make things come to life

For Charisma scores. Open mic night! Gotta get some laughs

Thanks for all the work you put in for our nerd brains' enjoyment! A lot of these tests actually look kinda fun :D

I love how much thought you guys put into these videos, seeing all the hard work people put into their hobbies makes me want to do better and go farther with my own stuff. Specifically D&D, but ya know, in general. Also, we have very similar body types Bob, so I'm basing my stats on yours 😅

TROVE I'm really enjoying this channel.

TROVE! Love the DnD irl videos!

Oh there’s a contest in this video Lol Trove. Thanks again for your videos!!!

Love your treasure”trove” of knowledge.

TROVE. And great video as always!

Seriously all, thanks for doing all the hard work. 😎🤘🍻

TROVE i love the catchphrases on the hats!

For charisma: maybe try to negotiate a discount with an unknown sales person?

Cool to see the slope climbing times matched up! I agree that anything beyond a slope, a ladder or climbing on a table probably needs an athletics check, with the DM deciding how far the result gets you. Trove :)

Great video! -- TROVE!

2:18 that "Nice" was perfect

“Trove” and great videos Bob, Grace, and Steven the animal.

Trove This channel is hilarious, keep up the good work :)

High-key impressed with Bob's climbing skills.

TROVE As a climber myself this video was really fun!!

Loved this episode! Especially how spot on the difficult terrain was. Still I wouldn't necessarily say that movement speed doesn't apply to climbing - more accurately, walking speed doesn't apply. Humans definitely don't have a "climbing speed" so that's true in that case, but races like tortle and tabaxi and spiders have claws or other different types of appendages that make climbing vertical surfaces much easier

Your videos are a treasure trove of entertainment

I love this series of real life application of game mechanics!! Can’t wait to see how you measure Charisma!

Bob the World Climber!

TROVE Btw I love seeing you all explore how grounded in reality the 5e rules are! Keep it up!!!

TROVE these videos are great!

Excellent videos all! Please keep them coming! A few other things to consider, maybe? 1. Body shapes/sizes. Tall and thin, short and stocky, or a typical normal build. Or perhaps, a normal weight, but either short-waisted with long legs, or long-waisted with shorter legs. All of these kinds of body builds would affect one's ability checks in a variety of ways. 2. Additional knowledge or skills that could improve your ability check results. i.e. Climbing lore that teaches you other ways to climb. (Such as wrapping cord around both ankles, making one large loop of cord. That loop grabs onto the tree bark, giving a wider area of contact.) I know that D&D allows you to have some of this additional knowledge, but do they take into account a person's body build?

Super interesting! As a relatively experienced rock climber( a bit over 8 years in a variety of styles) I saw this, and I was thinking about timing myself on similar climbing tests to see if that matches it more closely. But I'm probably going to forget to do this when I next go climbing.

Trove!! I love watching these on my days off! For charisma the idea I have is to go to a swap meet of some sort with items of comparable value and see who can make the most $$$.

Goblins have a 30ft speed, so she's actually the only one of you who is verifiably NOT a goblin.

What a TROVE of edutainment. Bob and friends are really out here showing why we used to have skill levels to show skill specialization.

TROVE As if I needed another reason to participate! You rock, dudes!

You're channel is a Trove of knowledge

Trove! Thank you!

I used to do rock climbing and this video really fires up the old show off in me who wants to take a crack at climbing all those things.

Speaking of charisma, that gentle hand placed on Grace's shoulder in the intro as you let her say her silly line must've been a nat 20. Wholesome content.

Love this concept and great video! Just fun info, there is a way to climb a rope with no knots a lot easier by using you feet to create leverage! The army rangers do it, idk about the other branches. Really cool to see, I imagine harder than it looks lol but worth learning if you want to be the speediest adventurer you can be lol

TROVE Great video!

Really Nice. Thanks. TROVE

For charisma: talking free (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) drinks off of strangers, or discounts at thrift shops.

bob really shows how it's not about strength alone but mostly technic the way he climb the wall and the tree. without the prober technic, you will have to use 2 to 3 times the strength to do the job

TROVE Also good idea at showing the impact using the rope in the forest slop

TROVE Thanks for putting so much effort into testing the reality of fantasy. Great job!

For climbing just a straight rope, if you're the only one on a rope or you're the one at the bottom you can wrap it around the inside of your shin, around your ankle, and over the top of your foot and step on it. It hurts to do for a long time but you can use it to help hold your weight while you reset your hands and you can climb faster with less effort