Exactly what are chains?

[Dustyboy]

I mean, this game has a lot of rules, but all I see for chains are hardness and break rules.

Is there anything I'm missing? can a chain be used as a rope?

[Kazaan]

To answer the question, "Exactly what are chains?" we must start by answering the question, "What is the definition of 'is'?"

[Corbin Dallas]

Are we talking about climbing here?

Pathfinder Companion: Adventurer’s Armory wrote: wrote:

Rope Tricks
Rope tricks can be performed with hemp rope or silk rope, or with similar rope-like items at the GM's discretion.

Do you think the GM thinks of chains as a rope-like item?

[SlimGauge]

Depends on what you're using the rope for. If you're burning the rope for some reason, you can't do that with chain, but you could climb a chain as if it were a rope. It's harder to tie a knot in a chain than in a rope. If you're trying to restrain a creature, you need shackles or manacles (there are rules for them).

This is what GMs are for, to make rulings like this on the fly.

[Dustyboy]

Corbin Dallas wrote:

Are we talking about climbing here?

Pathfinder Companion: Adventurer’s Armory wrote: wrote:

Rope Tricks
Rope tricks can be performed with hemp rope or silk rope, or with similar rope-like items at the GM's discretion.

Do you think the GM thinks of chains as a rope-like item?

potentially, just odd to only find rules for an item in a feat

[Corbin Dallas]

I just threw that in there for additional reference. Like SlimGauge posted- Depends on what you want to use the chain for...

[Ciaran Barnes]

Kazaan wrote:

To answer the question, "Exactly what are chains?" we must start by answering the question, "What is the definition of 'is'?"

And we must know what the definitions of are are?

[Kazaan]

'Are' is a form of 'Is'. Or, more specifically, both are forms of the verb 'be'. So to define one is, by extension, to define the other with the only difference being that 'Are' is the 'present indicative plural' and the 'second person singular' while 'Is' is the 'third person singular present indicative'.

[Ciaran Barnes]

Ah to study one's own language. Who would have thought? :)

[Corbin Dallas]

Holy crap on a cracker.

Are we still going on this? Hehehe