Re: A couple of things.

[Greg Mowczko <mooch@ns1.cioe.com>]

 Only something on "a" here "b" gets its own followup.

The unwritten rule stems back to games run in 1990 when the system was
being changed alot. My adventurer ( my first ) had a Strength of 16 and
wanted to wield these weird ass swords that needed a 12 to weild 2 handed
and I wanted to use a shield and I was allowed to due to my strength and
later bastard swords went from 2 hands to 1 hand ( possible ) if your
strength was high enough. Now you can weild the bastard one handed with the
strength of ( I forget 13? 14? ). I have no problem with this for certain
weapons but some ( the ones that use torque to inflict damage should need
the 2 hands still ).

I do like your additional bit about going the other way and letting a one
handed weapon be used with 2 if your strength is to low.

						Greg

> From: Wright Frazier <khelek>
>
> a) There has for the longest time been the unwritten(is it?) rule that
> 	if you have 4more pts of str than it takes to wield a 2
> 	handed weapon, you can wield it 1 handed.  My idea was this,
> 	what about making it so you can use a 1 handed weapon 2 handed
> 	if you have up to 4 less strength than is normally required.
>
> 	i.e. you can use a long sword with 2 hands if you have a
> 	8 str.  A bastard sword takes a 10str to use 2 handed.  
>
> 	Anyways, you get the idea.
>
> b) This past weekend, a player some how became an air elemental.  Said
> 	character now wants to get mutated so they are poison gas.  What
> 	the character wants to be mutated to doesn't matter, what does
> 	matter is that should such a creature(one without DNA and no
> 	physical form) be mutateable.
>
> 	It has been ruled innumerable times by Dan and every other GM that
> 	mutate alters the DNA of the target.  The character asked practically
> 	every GM present at saturday's game, and every single time was
> 	told 'no'.  The most common reason is the above, mutate changes
> 	the subjects DNA, and elementals have no DNA.
>
> 	Is that correct?  Or did the 10 or so of us make a mistake?
>
> Later,
>
> Wright
>
>