03-25 Storming Diamond Gate last stairs steep!

[piquwee]

Hello,
During the final encounter, there is a set of stairs traveling 100' down with a run of 20'. That's more of a ladder than stairs.
Would a character need to use 2 hands to traverse the stairs or find it necessary to make a DC check of some sort?
Thank you

[Kristen Gipson]

I always played it as stairs (no hands). I never had PCs make it that far into the map during combat for it to matter.

My personal opnion is that that combat already has alot going on for it (summons, AoEs, archers, burning bridges, 100+ falls, difficult terrain, flying caster). So making that even more difficult by occupying both hands is too much. That combat easily lasts 10+ rnds and has the real potential for PC death anyways.