Stretching and Running

[Christopher]

Hello.

 

We have an dicussion in the forums about Stretching:

Asuming a character has enough stretching in his legs to stretch them over a chasm, can he just "walk" over it at running speed?

[Steve Long]

Re: Stretching and Running

 

As usual, this is a question to which the GM needs to apply his common sense and dramatic sense to determine an answer for his campaign.

 

On the one hand, the rules are quite clear that Stretching doesn’t improve a character’s movement capabilities (much less give him new forms of movement). A GM who wants to stress this sort of thing in his campaign would probably forbid a character to “step across” a chasm, which would ordinarily require Flight, Leaping, or the like. At best he might only let a character do this if he succeeded with a Stretching Tricks roll or the like (this strikes me as a great use of the Power Skill).

 

On the other hand, 6E1 286, middle left column, describes how a character with Stretching can pull himself to the tops of buildings. A GM who prefers a looser style of play could analogize “stepping across” a chasm to pulling one’s self to the top of a building and allow it if the character has enough Stretching.

 

Personally I’d probably take the latter approach, but each GM’s mileage may vary.