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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: RPG opinions (was Re: Programmer...)
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Date: 7 Nov 90 20:58:49 GMT
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In article <55634@brunix.UUCP> man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine) writes:
>In article <QbB2aqm00WB381m2ZV@andrew.cmu.edu>, ck31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Bruce Kidwell) writes:
>|> [...] I seem to remember
>|> someone mentioning a rule like this from AD&D to the effect that if a
>|> character is surrounded by more than four enemies, he is automatically
>|> defeated.

For what it's worth, AD&D has no such rule.  Good Lord, what imbalance
that would create! "Sorry, your 357th level fighter is dead."  "Why?"
"Well, he got surrounded by five kobolds."  Yeah, right.
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