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I've just come across something a bit disconcerting in my Beta PbP game: The DC for escape artisting from rope bounds is 10 + CBM of the binder - that means anyone with a positive dex bonus can escape by taking ten from 1st level characters, and if you take 20, you can get much much further.
Now, granted, rope is not the best restraint in the world, but i would guess that it holds up for more than 20 minutes if the binder is halfway competent with it. Granted, too, that "Use Rope" was over-specific, but there should be somewhat more challenge to the thing.
These DCs seem too low to me. I'd guess either they should go up by 5 (or even 10), or maybe Escape Artist should become trained only. I would actually favor the later, because dislocating a shoulder or two is a staple of such techniques, and i know i could not do that.