Grip

Typically used with: Muscle.

In short: hang on. Awe your onlookers with your fearsome wall-scaling abilities. Clutch onto a bucking bronco. Open a stuck jar lid. These are the kind of possibilities presented to characters with an exceptional Grip skill.

Uses

Grip can be used to effectively ascend or descend vertical distances as well as maintain solid holds on objects.

Climbing

You can roll a Grip check to climb out of a pit, up a tree, down a cliff, over the city walls, or across a ledge. The tougher the surface is to climb, the higher the DL.

The ladder into a tree house should be DL 5, and a sheer cliff face should be DL 30. A smooth, flat surface is basically impossible for mortals to Climb short of using magic spells. If you use climbing equipment, you gain a +4 bonus to the Grip check. A device such as magnetic boots, while not magical, allow for climbing of flat, metal surfaces at a DL of 10.

If you fail the check, you fall from your starting point. Not so bad at the bottom, but deadly from the top. See the Guard skill about falling damage.

Depending on how far you're climbing, your GM may ask you for Stamina checks or risk falling. If you're trying to go especially fast (or at least faster than someone else), you'll also want to roll a Dash check. If you're carrying something or someone, you also want to roll a Might check.

Once you start climbing, you gain the grabbed condition (in this case you're wrestling the wall). It's really hard to climb and fight at the same time. Even so, a character cannot use a two-handed weapon while climbing (unless, say, the character has more than one set of arms).

You can try to catch an object or creature that falls from above you. Roll another Grip check. The heavier it is, the higher the DL. If you fail, whatever it was continues falling. If you roll a Critical Failure, you follow suit in proper arm-flailing fashion.

Grabbing

You can roll a Grip check to grab onto another creature ("Get over here!") or try to vie for the same held object ("It's my locknar").

Any time you try to grab a creature or an object it holds, combat begins and the GM should make everyone roll Reaction. See the Grab entry in the Tactics section of Chapter 10: Combat. Your opponent can prevent or escape your grab by surpassing your Grip check with a Might check (if they're strong) or a Thievery check (if they're agile). As long as you have a hold on them, you both gain the grabbed condition. There are all kinds of interesting maneuvers you can attempt once you have someone held, including prying an object from their grasp.

Holding

Any great feat of strength using your hands and fingers only (or feet and toes, for that matter) is what the Grip skill is all about. Pry open the glue bottle, hang on for dear life, or keep what's yours.

Any time someone tries to disarm you in combat, you roll a Grip check and they roll a Thievery