Why so much rope?

[I'll be the one]

When I was playing a ranger in the D&D Dragonlance version I hardly ever used rope. Now in BG3 I have lost count of how much rope I find and I just started Act 2.

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Larians are making some kind of a reference, but we have not yet understood their intention

[Exarch_Alpha]

It´s just to give an impression of people living/lived in a place. Like cups etc

[Wilkas]

If you find all the ropes you get a secret interaction with Shadowheart.

[Omegatherion]

Originally posted by Wilkas:

If you find all the ropes you get a secret interaction with Shadowheart.

Oh, how i wish you were right with that.

[Axetwin]

I kind of wish you could use the rope to lower yourself down the kind of falls that would damage or kill you instead of using feather fall.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Might just be set dressing.

Might just be a joke about how often rope is useful when people play the TTRPG (e.g. climbing, securing prisoners when you didn't bring manacles and leg irons, various other uses).

Maybe they were planning to use them in some feature that was never implemented, but didn't find it worthwhile to bother to remove the ropes.

[Brian_the_Brute]

It's likely cut content. Originally had a use, now it's just flavor along with all the rotten carrots everywhere. There's other conspicuous items like Enriched Infernal Ore and Gems that were intended for crafting items, but the crafting bench was never realized in the game.

[That Fish Guy]

They overheard my d&d group bickering with the DM about how little rope was available to us, how many times we've cut and knotted our 80 foot rope, how accurately we keep track of it and what we do with it.

Why do we spend so much time doing it? My only guess is a number of the group are accountants, and the DM likes to get under their skin XD

[Detective Costeau]

It's meant to be a matched set with all the calipers from Oblivion.

[seeker1]

To give the trolls as much rope as they need to hang themselves.

[DeMasked]

Imo the rope was a cut feature to allow for more simple traversal in the game.

The thieves hanging outside of Wither's crypt is a good indication. You have a boulder hanging up top that can blow up a hole and nearby you had a statue that could've been used as something to attach a rope to so you could climb down as opposed to jumping.

Instead of rope uses you have more cliffs or vines you can climb up or down. That is my guess anyways. Kinda sad that the crafting is so bare bones compared to DOS2 which had more. All those metal bars are completely useless when you keep coming across smithies or forges and whatnot.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Originally posted by seeker1:

To give the trolls as much rope as they need to hang themselves.

[RoboSauce]

Because it would have been fun to use but they never figured out how to code it, yet left it in the game.

[Vic]

Originally posted by seeker1:

To give the trolls as much rope as they need to hang themselves.

I appreciate this.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Brian_the_Brute:

It's likely cut content. Originally had a use, now it's just flavor along with all the rotten carrots everywhere. There's other conspicuous items like Enriched Infernal Ore and Gems that were intended for crafting items, but the crafting bench was never realized in the game.

I think gems were always meant to be sold.

But rope definitely would've made more sense than convenient vines everywhere.