Doors w/o locks???
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:52 pm
A quick mundane question about doors, one that has never been answered, though I have asked it before.
Rulebook: page 69 under Locks
".......A door with no locking mechanism is assumed to be locked by sliding a bar which can be slid open in no time by a person on the inside or if no one is inside, then the door is assumed to be unbarred."
Is this still true? Say the front door of Castle Gravesbane does not have a lock on it. I am on the inside and 25 NPC's are on the outside. Does that mean they can't come through if I "bar" the door, unless they destroy it?
Several occurrences have seen this not be true, and end up in a tugging match on the doorknobs between NPC's and the players on the inside, the NPC's claiming we "can't hold the door shut, we have to let them in".
A ruling? No two GM's have ever been able to give me the same answer on this.
Thanks!!!
Rulebook: page 69 under Locks
".......A door with no locking mechanism is assumed to be locked by sliding a bar which can be slid open in no time by a person on the inside or if no one is inside, then the door is assumed to be unbarred."
Is this still true? Say the front door of Castle Gravesbane does not have a lock on it. I am on the inside and 25 NPC's are on the outside. Does that mean they can't come through if I "bar" the door, unless they destroy it?
Several occurrences have seen this not be true, and end up in a tugging match on the doorknobs between NPC's and the players on the inside, the NPC's claiming we "can't hold the door shut, we have to let them in".
A ruling? No two GM's have ever been able to give me the same answer on this.
Thanks!!!