You are practiced at using physical might to escape your bonds. You can use Strength instead of Dexterity as your base ability for Escape Artist skill checks to free yourself from bondage. Additionally, you gain a +1 trait bonus on such Escape Artist checks.
Okay, I checked the deity and Kurgess did not have lust as an area of concern. Which ones of the following uses of the skill would this trait apply to?
Escape rope/bindings
Escape a net, animate rope spell, command plants, control plants, or entangle
Escape a snare spell
Escape normal manacles
Move through a tight space
Escape masterwork manacles
Escape grapple or reduce pinned condition to grappled condition
If it's the traditional meaning of the word, then I'd argue that it applies to everything except squeezing.
Thoughts?
Well, the answer depends... are you over the age of majority in your country?
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I would assume that the intention is to give you the bonus any time you are tied up and/or bound. Which would make it apply to everything but grapple checks and squeezing.
But I suppose you could say it applies to all escape artist checks but only while you are a slave and are using the skill to not be a slave. Which would make it extremely circumstantial at best.
What does Bondage mean?
I'll tell you when you're older.
@LordKailas
I figured the trait could be used to escape situations where your liberty was at stake, such as being bound or grappled.
But your interpretation makes more sense.
Also, really strange choice of words for the trait. With the exception of the obvious connotation, the concept of bondage isn't that closely related to being tied up.
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Yeah, I'm in agreement with LordKailas. Anything where you're tied up, manacled, or otherwise restrained by actual bonds (which can be anything, leather cords, nets, spider webs, plants with animated vines, rope, manacles/chains, etc).
Are you escaping bonds? Then you can use Strength and get a +1 trait bonus to your Escape Artist check.
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Because of Kurgess, if I'm the GM, I would rule it to mean you can use STR for Escape Artist on anything we could agree on you flexing your way out of it:
Ropes, manacles, Black Tentacles, but not, say, a dragon's jaws or a gelatinous cube. There'll probably be a bunch of corner cases either way.
...but yeah, I'd probably also allow it to work if you've been grappled by kytons.