Strength Checks

A Strength check can model any attempt to lift, push, pull, or break something, to force your body through a space, or to otherwise apply brute force to a situation. The Athletics skill reflects aptitude in certain kinds of Strength checks.

Other Strength Checks. The GM might also call for a Strength check when you try to accomplish tasks like the following:

• Force open a stuck, locked, or barred door

• Break free of bonds

• Push through a tunnel that is too small

• Hang on to a wagon while being dragged behind it

• Tip over a statue

• Keep a boulder from rolling