Some stuff on stuff

[Scott Adams]

At 08:23 AM 4/2/02 -0500, you wrote:
>||>That's how I play my character in any games, and certainly how I present
>the
>||>NPC's the players run into.
>||
>||But are you total strict to the article ie weapon choices and such?
>
>I try to be.  In my brother's game (home-brew system, but run in the lands)
>My Goidan warrior chose spear from the list of cultural weapons.  Despite
>all the times when going with a sword, whether taken from some supernatural
>source or in terms of more effectiveness, I have stuck stubbornly with the
>spear use.
>
>When I run my games I try to have the culture encounters use the proper
>cultural weapons, and when characters are hustling for new weapons, the
>cultural weapons are the ones most easily available, others may not be
>found, depending on how far from the trade lanes they are and how divergant
>from the cultural weapons.

Yeah when its Joe Average guard then yes.  I'll keep strict.

>
>||>Given how nasty it could be to have some archer pumping deadly and
>serious
>||>wounds into you, I think it is reasonable.
>||
>||True.  Just seems like in all those movies the archers have the day won
>most
>||times based on their sheer reloads.  What was it the Roman archers could
>||load and reload a bow in 8.5 seconds according to old records?  Some
>||history i read somewhere....those would likely be longbows...
>
>Hello!?  McFly!  8.5sec = 3 phases.  I have bowmen take only 1 phase to
>reload, and you complain, when real life has them take 2 phases? :}

I mean that for everything ie the other reload times as a comparison of
sorts...

>
>||>In my past games, and in my upcoming one, I have used this very strictly
>(PC
>||>weapon vs monster OCV). I also have the following armor notes (taken from
>my
>||>revised equipment list):
>||
>||I just forget to take it into account alot of times till its too late ...
>
>...Armor notes snipped...
>
>||Interesting.  When I first read the rules so many years ago this
>||system (Att. pri) was the most confusing to me for some reason..
>
>The armor notes are not in the books...I added them as it seems reasonable
>to me that the armored saints in the group would be a bit slowed down.

Yep.

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