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From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: command spell & ropes
Message-ID: <343@wuphys.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 12:55:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 12:55:40 1985
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Keywords: Rope, Cheese Whiz, Paul Bunyan

In article <1899@hcrvax.UUCP> jims@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan) writes:
>> Tying someone up in one round is o.k. if you go by the AD&D
>> combat round, which is 1 minute long.
>
>Agreed, I find it difficult to believe that a fighter can only swing once
>in one minute !
>
>Jim Sullivan

Now, I don't want to get into an arguement about whether it makes sense or not,
but I believe that the rationalization for this is that, when two fighters are
duking it out, there are many swings in one minute, but that only one (on the
average, and for fighters below 7th level) hits for any damage. (God, what a
long sentance!)  Of course, that doesn't explain why a fighter also only gets
one swing/round against a spell-casting MU, but you can't have everything.  I
hope this has helped to confuse the issue.



						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
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