Re: horsey stuff

[Orion Furmanski <thelaw@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Joel Gunderson wrote:

> So I'll put it in as the dumbass who misses takes a d8.
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Steve Ames wrote:
> 
> > > > But haven't we established that 'normal people' have only about 6 DP? 
> > > > Adventurers are crazed maniacs that don't flinch at having a kidney 
> > > > skewered.
> > >
> > > Which is why it should do more than 1d6, that won't kill a normal person.
> > 
> > Your saying that people _USUSALLY_ die when falling off horses? Anything
> > more than 1d6 has an average of 7 which is more than the 6 DP of the
> > usual person.
> > 
> > 					-Steve
> > 
> 
> 

	Hey folks, reighn it in here (pun intended). I have two female
friends who have owned and ridden horses. Niether is dead, and neither
have broken any bones from the falls. USUALLY you will NOT be killed by
falling off a horse, otherwise riding rodeo would not be such a popular
sport, to be sure.  Death occurs when one strikes the ground head-first,
or they get stepped on by the horse. Both events are extremely unlikely.
Defaulting tumbling is what my friends did, and they never walked away
from the wrecks with more than scrapes or the wind knocked out of them.
Put that in your pipes and smoke it.

Orion