[OOC] Return to the Rusty Rat

[DM Surranó]

About animated ropes and Blind (Ex)

Here's the deal.

Animated rope of 60' length is 3lbs. Compared to a Large snake (around 200lbs) it should be small at best but given that the Animate Rope spell explicitly says wrapping creatures needs them to be no more than 1ft away we could even say tiny.

Animated objects like blankets, rugs, tapestries have Blind (Ex) as a special attack:

A sheetlike animated object such as a carpet or tapestry can grapple an opponent up to three sizes larger than itself. The object makes a normal grapple check. If it wins, it wraps itself around the opponent’s head, causing that creature to be blinded until removed.

Now, a rope is a very thin rug.  so it may have some issues with this maneuver but let's say three successful grappling maneuvers qualify.

Since the rope has a move speed of 10 feet per round (and cannot hustle) and a circumference of a 12ft tall humanoid's head is about 5ft it needs a full round plus a standard action to wrap around the statue's head but in this particular situation I rule that the element of surprise allows the rope to make three wraps around the head in the first round.

Remember that starting a grapple begins with entering enemy space, provoking attack of opportunity, but again, in this particular situation I rule that the opponent lost sight of the duergar and thus will be flat-footed against this maneuver, thus no AOO.

Even then, a small object's grapple modifier is -4 (26 with a natural 20) while the large construct's grapple modifier is 28 (18 with a natural 1) so it's a snowball's chance in hell for you to roll three natural 20s and me to roll three natural 1s at the same time.

But I freaking love the idea so much that I. Will. Allow. It. This. One. Time.
With three melee touch attacks on behalf of the rope (BAB 0 +1 size +0 str) it will succeed.