| Kevin Keyser 869 |
The way I figure, it doesn't so much as create a grapple situation as it does attach the rope to the target upon a successful grapple check.
The grapple check is to simulate your ability to place the arrow in a location on the target that effectively lodges it in the target's body or armor.
If the rope is attached to a solid object, the target would need to make a grapple check to remove the barbed arrow. If the rope is held by another creature, they would make opposed grapple checks to see if the target can move away, there by dragging the creature holding the rope with it unless the creature holding the rope drops the rope.
The target can still move otherwise, but is tethered in place, with the length of the rope as the limit of it's movement away from the anchor point, until otherwise released from that anchor, either by removing the barbed arrow, or cutting the rope.
Yeah, this could have been much better executed in it's explanation.
The way I plan on using it is to pull targets closer to me if they're flying or hanging from the ceiling or something.