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Re: Thought for the day

by Antoine <antoine.from.rgrd@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 28, 2008 at 06:55 PM

On Apr 29, 12:27=A0pm, The Wanderer <inversepara...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Antoine wrote:
> > (lifted off oook with modifications):
>
> > All missile weapons should have massive to-hit penalties at point
> > blank range. ("The hill orc is too close to shoot! You miss the hill
> > orc.")
>
> This idea crops up in many places in fantasy, and it has never made much
> sense to me.

Well, I think it is consistent with a 'use melee weapons for fighting
in melee and missile weapons for fighting at a distance' trope, which
is standard in many games.

It helps avoid the situation where people wander round with a +9/+9
bow and use it for combat at all ranges, which is displeasing to my
intuition. I think that if someone wants to do all their fighting with
a bow then they should have to maneuver to stay at range (shoot-and-
scoot, etc).

A.
 




 22 Posts in Topic:
Thought for the day
Antoine <antoine.from.  2008-04-28 14:30:08 
Re: Thought for the day
The Wanderer <inversep  2008-04-28 20:27:21 
Re: Thought for the day
Christophe <chris.cava  2008-04-29 12:09:03 
Re: Thought for the day
Martin Bazley <martin@  2008-05-02 19:16:45 
Re: Thought for the day
The Wanderer <inversep  2008-05-03 14:08:59 
Re: Thought for the day
George Smith <gsmith@[  2008-05-03 15:43:46 
Re: Thought for the day
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Pieti  2008-05-03 23:03:45 
Re: Thought for the day
The Wanderer <inversep  2008-05-03 18:23:43 
Re: Thought for the day
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Pieti  2008-05-04 02:37:17 
Re: Thought for the day
The Wanderer <inversep  2008-05-03 21:41:43 
Re: Thought for the day
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Pieti  2008-05-04 09:51:18 
Re: Thought for the day
The Wanderer <inversep  2008-05-04 06:52:33 
Re: Thought for the day
Otto Martin <otto.mart  2008-05-06 21:22:05 
Re: Thought for the day
Antoine <antoine.from.  2008-04-28 18:55:41 
Re: Thought for the day
Big Al <bigAlexPhillip  2008-04-28 21:08:05 
Re: Thought for the day
Paul J Gans <gans@[EMA  2008-04-29 16:20:53 
Re: Thought for the day
David Vestal <dvestal@  2008-04-29 05:20:18 
Re: Thought for the day
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Pieti  2008-04-29 23:37:54 
Re: Thought for the day
zaimoni@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-04-29 06:35:54 
Re: Thought for the day
konijn_ <konijn@[EMAIL  2008-04-29 09:23:00 
Re: Thought for the day
Antoine <antoine.from.  2008-04-29 13:57:41 
Re: Thought for the day
Ed_47569 <edpentney@[E  2008-04-29 15:57:38 

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