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I had a situation arise recently when running rise of the runelords for my group. There is a section in the hook mountain massacre where there is a flood in turtleback ferry. In order to get to a boat hung up against the side of the general store the material indicated that it would require a swim check to reach. Reading through the description that was given It seemed the water at the boats location would be between 2-3 feet deep.

It seemed odd to me that only a swim check dc was given since, it seemed to me that a player of medium size would still be able to walk though not very well to reach the boat. I gave a player with a low swim the choice to use acrobatics and treated the dc the same but made it about balance. After discussing the issue with another player after the session we can not agree if this was the right course of action.

Would like to know if there is a rule in regards to water that can be traversed by standing or swimming, like crossing a fast moving creek, and if not how other DM's would have handled the situation.

--Pharazon

I have forwarded both emails that I have received to the tips@kotaku.com ( a website about games geared specifically for gamers) and have had no luck in getting them to even put a small blurb about the kickstarter even though there have been several other less deserving kickstarters mentioned. With the kickstarter rapidly nearing its end I would love to see people reach out to the gaming websites with me to help spread the word to get people involved in the kickstarter.

If Paizo or Goblinworks read over this please reach out to these sites as you need visibility for this project and greatly deserve it. The sandbox nature of the game and the crowdforging direction alone is news worthy and should merit a decent write up from these sites.

Thank you in advance for your efforts,

Pharazon