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The manual says you cant climb down without rope. That's the only place I have ever even seen mention of rope. Does such a thing even really exist in Dagerrfall? If so where!?!

It doesn't exist to my knowledge, although climbing down objects is extremely hard.

Nope, no rope. Climbing down is very hard, if not impossible.
I use levitate.

I thought so, but If there is no rope, just how DO you climb down? I ask for future reference when playing a strictly non-magical character.

It works the same way climbing normally would, it's just MUCH harder.

From memory, if I recall, What you have to do is tilt your view downwards while climbing a wall with the keyboard control.

Nope, still going up.

I've given up on going down in Daggerfall, especially after I got and cured lycanthropy and am stuck with 10 HP.

Well the main thing I would be using it for is climbing city walls. I have resorted to just jumping off the other side. It hurts but not that much. As it is I am playing a magic user right now but I plan on playing a thief next with absolutely no magic. the city walls are not an issue but shafts like you find in Theodyricks laboratory are impossible ( I tried jumping once and died). That said, this makes playing a thief really difficult. I wonder if it can be patched?

I haven't found places unreachable by foot in dungeons in my gameplays, only those accessed by red brick doors. Be sure to check out all secret passages you can find and to explore every room.

Precisely, I mean to stay in character, and a thief (or Altier type assassin) should not have any magic in my opinion. Going up is not a problem,it's the going down that I have an issue with.

I think that rope is an item removed during development of the game, but they forgot to edit the manual.
If you don't want to use magic, then your only choice is to use items enchanted with either a slow fall or a levitation spell.

Yep, that sounds about right. I discovered while playing my magic-user that the crypts of the necromancers at scourge barrow are impossible the get out of by mundane means, due to the inverted funnel design of the coffin entrance. I have thusly concluded that purely mundane characters in Daggerfall, SUCK. How does one even acquire enchanted items without joining the mages guild and rising in rank, or getting lucky with loot? Daggerfall really looks like it was made for the magic user , and to Oblivion with everyone else.

Actually the "Jumping" skill reduces the fall damage. I am playing without magic at all (only potions which I am able to find from loot). Of course it is possible to stuck somewhere of nowhere in a dungeon, but if you climb up few times over of falling down you are also decreases total damage.