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At 05:12 PM 4/21/2010, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi, Guys,<br>
If I may impose I have three things I'd like to throw it
into one email.<br><br>
1. A question on parries.<br>
In RQ, parrying with a spear and parrying with a sword are
equally<br>
practical. Is this realistic?<br>
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Almost certainly not. But do you really, really want to start
getting into all the special cases that would be required to deal with
parrying with various weapons? Because there's probably a good
dozen or so different cases if I had to guess.<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">2. A question on RQ III
vs. 2nd edition BRP. The RQ III rule of flexible<br>
armor giving only half protection against crushing attacks (e.g. a mace).
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BRP instead has a stun result for special hits with crushing weapons.
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Which rule do you prefer, and why?<br>
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Well, the RQ3 rule (which only showed up in the errata, and which we
never used locally) is another special-casing example; there's good
reason to think thatmost armors interact in varied ways to different
weapons (picks being the poster child here).<br><br>
Personally, I prefered the RQ: AIG rule where a special with a blunt
weapon treated <i>all</i> armor at half value and did better
knockback.<br><br>
<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">3. The other day, the
venerable D&D module B2, Keep of the Borderlands<br>
got mentioned. I would not hold it up as an example of
excellent<br>
adventures, but I will jump to its defense for one reason. It is a
very<br>
satisfactory primer on elementary RPG for youths. Back in the day,
many<br>
kids around age 12-14 got started with peers.<br>
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That assumes its really a good one, though, rather than just one a lot of
people were exposed to early.<br><br>
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