RE: T'or Priests

[John Hogg <johnhogg@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Steve Ames wrote:

> > So, again, what items are we voting on this weekend?  What
> > proposals can we look forward to?
> 
> Your horsey stuff is on the ballot. John's swimming stuff?
> 
> 						-Steve
>

OK,
Can't be there this weekend (slotted to work 1-11 pm at freakin Penney's!)

However ...

As was my intent, please remove the multi-page proposal from the voting
list.  The unofficial straw poll (i.e. the murmer of agreement from nearly
everyone at the last GM meeting) in response to my asking about exessive
lengthyness/pickyness/etc of the doc pretty well indicates a nearly
uniform NAY vote (I'd vote it down as well).

The point of proposing the darned thing was to illustrate how exessive it
would be to try to analyse ALL the situations someone may be in so the GM
may give the "proper" difficulty roll for someone swimming.

Really the only salvagable elements are the first couple of paragraphs
that indicate what happens when a swimming check and default are botched.

Consider the rest of the tripe guidelines when GMing and use/ignore at
will.

For the record, last game I GMed, I put it at about a 4-5 die swimming
check for those in heavy armor, with equipment and swords (not nearly the
10+ I could get using the 'rules' I wrote up).

It sucks to have your character die by drowning.
Drowning ought only be the death of the stupid.
Even the stupid ought to get a warning shot.

As the party was being relatively smart, taking precautions about drowing
(save two people who got the high end checks), and were blue-fielded and
the boat under them moved ... (i.e. they didn't hop into the drink fully
equipped and had indicated if given a choice they wouldn't)

Nobody really was being dangerously stupid on the water save the two
people in heavy armor.

One of them had swimming high enough they MADE the 5 die check
The other was a newbie (and got assistance by the party)

Everyone more or less gets out OK, there is the FEEL of character death,
but no one got waxed.

THAT'S the way drowning ought to be.

-John