Re: easy sinking

[Keith Klumb <kklumb@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

I tried to access the text file and permission was denied (chmod???)
	I just had a question of the swimming thing..What do you do to
show that someone is encumbered in their swimming by them having a heavy
back pack on, if they want to keep hold of their great sword...stuff like
that.

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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, John Hogg wrote:

> Hmmm
> 
> just came up with an idea that's easier than the 50 pages of how something
> in AQ sinks ...
> 
> Instead of a base amount one sinks depending on armor, and adding 500
> rolls to combat ... let the GM adjudicate how something sinks ... to
> reflect additional difficulty in swimming, add the agi penalty and
> strength penalty that the armor one is wearing bestows to the difficulty
> roll
> 
> i.e. +1d6 leather and chain, +2d6 plate.
> 
> Unfortunately it re-opens the whole "Does my exceptional stat effect my
> skill check?" arguement.  
> 
> Unless one arbitrarily words it "Leather and Chain armors add an
> additional 1d6 to swimming check difficulty, plate armors +2d6"
> 
> And it was just COINCIDENCE (I swear) that the numbers JUST HAPPENED to
> work out the same way ...
> 
> Anybody willing to play ball here?
> 
> Again, check expert.cc.purdue.edu/~johnhogg/AQSTUFF/drowntxt.txt and give
> me opinions BEFORE FRIDAY if changes need to be made.  I CAN'T make the GM
> meeting, so if you want to give feedback, do so now.
> 
> John Hogg					johnhogg@expert.cc.purdue.edu
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