From: owner-rq-rules-digest To: rq-rules-digest@hops.wharton.upenn.edu Subject: RQ Rules Digest: V2 #183 Reply-To: rq-rules Errors-To: owner-rq-rules-digest Precedence: bulk Content-Return: Prohibited Return-Path: owner-rq-rules-digest RQ Rules Digest: Wednesday, 14 February 1996 Volume 02 : Number 183 TABLE OF CONTENTS Microsoft PO Undeliverable Mail Nils Weinander Skill levels in respect to age ANDOVER@delphi.com Skill levels in respect to age Hannu Kokko RQ Rules Digest: V2 #180 RULES OF THE ROAD 1. Do not include large sections of a message in your reply. Especially not to add "Yeah, I agree" or "No, I disagree." Or be excoriated. If someone writes something good and you want to say "good show" please do. But don't include the whole message you praise. 2. Use an appropriate Subject line. 3. Learn the art of paraphrasing: Don't just quote and comment on a point-by-point basis. When paraphrasing you demonstrate exactly how well you understand the point someone was trying to make. 4. There is no number 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Microsoft PO" Date: 11 Feb 1996 16:06:07 +1000 Subject: Undeliverable Mail Unknown Microsoft mail form. Approximate representation follows. Message: RQ Rules Digest: V2 #181 Sent: Sat, Feb 10, 1996 4:04 PM To: Aden Steinke On Server: Admin PO2 Date: Sun, Feb 11, 1996 4:06 PM Reason: Could not be delivered because the destination Microsoft Mail server could not be found. ------------------------------ From: Nils Weinander Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:51:06 +0100 Subject: Re: Skill levels in respect to age To start eroding physical ability and skill levels at age 30 sounds extremely harsh. I don't know about fighting skills since I have none, but I'm in better physical shape at age 31 than I have ever been before and still improving (I hope). ________________________________________________________________________ Nils W | Here we are! Office: niwe@einku.ericsson.se | We sail on a ship made of dreams. Home: nilsw@ibm.net ------------------------------ From: ANDOVER@delphi.com Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 10:46:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Skill levels in respect to age I think that it is quite likely that your actual physical skills are greater in your 30's than they wre in your 20's. My point is that your potential physical skills were greater in your 20's than they are now. The vast majority of real world people, and a smaller numberof PCs, never get anywhere near their potential level in their skills. Thatis a result of thre factors: time, choice, and laziness! Jim Chapin ------------------------------ From: HannuKokko@rquest.pp.fi (Hannu Kokko) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 20:10:48 +0300 Subject: Re: RQ Rules Digest: V2 #180 >> >>150%+ skills aren't impossible to achieve, nor are 200% skills. Nor do they >>require a D&D or Monty Haul style of play. > >Or an Aldryami with a few dozen gaming sessions under her belt, DEX trained >to 21, STR 16, with an elf bow using arrow trance. Gurta Snowbalsam (her >human name) was shooting at something like 240%. >Steve Lieb In my campaign I have three runelords by separate players who have been YEARS in play, some of them from the very early 1980's that have main weapon attack/defense in the 150-180 frame, at least with spells up. We play twice a month or so. It's nice when you can get them neutralized with tactics or unfamiliar situations, it sort of throws them a bit. I do not think that I have a Monty Haul campaign. It is pretty hard to progress towards that kind of proficiency in my campaign. - --hannu ==================== Hannu Kokko Cap Programator Finland Oy All opinions are mine not my employers' "Ninety-nine and half ain't enough." ------------------------------ End of RQ Rules Digest: V2 #183 ******************************* This is the bottom of the RuneQuest Rules Digest. RuneQuest is a trademark of Avalon Hill, and Glorantha is a trademark of Chaosium. With the exception of previously copyrighted material, unless specified otherwise all text in this digest is copyright by the author or authors, with rights granted to copy for personal use, to excerpt in reviews and replies, and to archive unchanged for electronic retrieval. Send electronic mail to Majordomo@hops.wharton.upenn.edu with "help" in the body of the message for subscription information on this and other mailing lists. WWW material at http://hops.wharton.upenn.edu/~loren/rolegame.html