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From: warack@aero.ARPA (Chris Warack )
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: command spell & ropes
Message-ID: <317@aero.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 19:35:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: aero.317
Posted: Fri Aug  2 19:35:56 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 10:38:13 EDT
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Organization: The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA
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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. 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]

>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]

One thing to keep in mind when judging the length of a round is that it
means more than one swing.  The one attack per one minute round takes into
account circling, protective moves and feints.  It also is a short cut --
instead of giving a fighter a 3% to hit each swing at 1 swing every 5
seconds, the round system takes an average and gives him a 36% chance to hit
each round.  A single roll can reflect more than one swing.  As more
experience is gained, fighting is more effective -- this is translated as a
better over all chance to cause damage that round [by increased hit
probability] or by more rolls --> more chances for more damage [2 hit rolls
per round].

It's important for a player under this system to understand this, or the "I
can do more than that" syndrome hits.  If a player wants to take his hit
roll for a round; he should not be allowed to do anything else; or should
take a substantial penalty to his hit chance.

[This topic has been discussed to death every so often in almost any FRP
magazine.  Look in back issues for more examples.]



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