Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!steven From: steven@qubix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Foo on the time-number of attacks business Message-ID: <1156@qubix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 17:07:55 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1156 Posted: Fri Jun 1 17:07:55 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 19:41:14 EDT References: <1406@ittvax.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 33 >> 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?)