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From: mazina@pur-ee.UUCP (Der Kaiser)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: command spell & ropes
Message-ID: <3073@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 18:58:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.3073
Posted: Wed Jul 24 18:58:06 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 08:22:04 EDT
Reply-To: mazina@pur-ee.UUCP (Der Kaiser)
Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
Lines: 24
Keywords: Rope, Cheese Whiz, Paul Bunyan
Summary: Silly....

In article <561@hou2g.UUCP> scott@hou2g.UUCP (N. Ersha) writes:
	>
	>What about tying them up?  Seems this could EASILY be
	>done in one round to a sleeping foe.  In fact, the party
	>I DM for did just that, polishing off a high(er) level
	>mage by commanding him to die or sleep (or whatever),
	>and then trussing him up like a Christmas gift.  (Not
	>to mention the fact that our Chaotic thief proceeded
	>to lop off his tongue--ugh!--to prevent spell casting
	>"from bondage").
	>
	>This was just TOO EASY.  Any suggestions for modifications?

	Of COURSE it was too easy, your DM was feeding you candy! (Check for
cavities :-) Tying someone up in one round is o.k. if you go by the AD&D
combat round, which is 1 minute long. You can tie them up, tattoo them, and
perhaps even give them a haircut! What should be done is shorten the round
so as to give a more reasonable ratio between combat and non-combat actions,
i.e. 1 attack, vs. tying someone up...



					Thomas Ruschak
					pur-ee!mazina