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Requesting some rules discussion/advice here:
So...under the description for nets, the core rule book mentions that "If you control the trailing rope by succeeding on an opposed Strength check while holding it, the entangled creature can move only within the limits that the rope allows". So what happens if the goblin slaver holding the leads of the rope entangling a PC tries to move?
What happens when someone holding the end of a rope that is enchanted via the Animate Rope spell tries to move away with their entangled victim? In the bestiary, the description of the fury (Erinyes) specifically mentions that they like to use their magic ropes (which function as per the Animate Rope spell) to drag their victims into the air.
So how would YOU handle these situations? Would that be a Drag (combat maneuver) check? Some other form of Combat Maneuver? Merely an opposed Strength check?
The problem I have with the drag idea, is merely that it would not seem very effective. I suppose the entangled creature is already taking a penalty to CMD (-2 as I figure it from the -4 dex effect of being entangled. The other -2 penalty to Attack Bonuses doesn't explicitly alter the CMD). But say if you're lucky a full 10 feet of movement against PCs...for a round that the fury could otherwise be spending shooting the victim full of arrows. Also...what if the fury (or magically flying slaver) doesn't want to pull the victim straight upward...limitations of flight notwithstanding. What if they want to drag the victim into the air a little...say 5'...and then fly them horizontally along the ground?
General thoughts? Ideas?