Re: horsey stuff

[Benjamin Austin <jedi@ecn.purdue.edu>]

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Orion Furmanski wrote:

> 
> 	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,

Perhaps it would be more at least spectator-wise.

> 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
> 
> 

I'm with Greg and Orion on this one.  Being thrown from a horse is more 
in the ball park of 1d3.  They are NOT extremely lethal animals to ride.  
That's WHY there ridden as opposed to say... lions.  Well, there's that 
whole availability thing too, I guess.


Question:  Why in the Hell does the swimming thing need to be so 
complicated?  And to think that I was getting on Wright's case for 
wanting to add a chart or two for weapons.

They way that I've always determined it is:

Your in the water.
Make a 1d6 swimming check.  No?  Default.
Swimming yet?  That's too bad.
Give me a 1d6 HEA check.  Still with us?
Good.  Wanna try another swimming check?  Fail; default.
Still sinking like stock prices? 2d6 vs. HEA.
Didn't make it, huh?  
Now I need you to roll three dice and call the name of your favorite 
god.  Oh, well.  Thanks for playing.

But, John, I do like the additions of the swimming skill based on armor 
and such.

See ya Saturday,
Beej