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From: jims@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
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Subject: Re: command spell & ropes
Message-ID: <1899@hcrvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 09:20:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 09:20:19 1985
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Keywords: Rope, Cheese Whiz, Paul Bunyan

> 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
Agreed, I find it difficult to believe that a fighter can only swing once
in one minute !  What I'va always done is maintained a two-tier system.
During regular play, a round is a minute, but during melee, things speed
up abit.  This makes battle more realisitic, and since my players know
that I treat time this way, I don't get any wild statements about attempting
strange feats during melee ("well, I have the time")

Jim Sullivan