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From: steven@qubix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Foo on the time-number of attacks business
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Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 17:07:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 17:07:55 1984
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>>  Except for one small problem : no fighter gets more than
>>  one attack per round until at least 8th level.  Segments
>>  are for determining WHEN in the round an attack is made,
>>  not how many.  Therefor the odds of a fighter having the
>>  chance to blow an MU's spell are one in (cast segments),
>>  and then only if he hits the MU.  Of course, the odds go
>>  up if the fighter is hasted, there is more than one fighter,
>>  etc, but the principle is the same. Therefore the argument
>>  just doesn't work (unless you think a fighter having a one
>>  in five chance of potentially destroying a cure light wounds
>>  is excessive).  The rules are hard enough to deal with
>>  without silly interpretations like this one.

				       David Wexelblat
				       (...decvax!ittvax!dwex)
				       (...decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!dwex)

    I always believed this to be a typo, since a "round" is
    60 seconds, and a "segment" is 6.  This would mean a fighter
    could swing his sword once a minute.  If this is the case,
    then that means that the '1" to 10 feet over a turn of
    10 minutes' is ALSO not a typo, and people walk at an
    astounding rate of 6 feet per minute.  Now while that is
    a reasonable speed for a tape recorder, it hardly fits
    for humans in a combat situation.

    Steven Maurer

    p.s.  I don't consider my interpretation to be "silly", I am
    simply trying to make the best sense out of these rules as are
    possible.  (Of course, if they were well written, we would not
    have this problem, would we?)