From: owner-rq-rules-digest To: rq-rules-digest@hops.wharton.upenn.edu Subject: RQ Rules Digest: V1 #29 Reply-To: rq-rules Errors-To: owner-rq-rules-digest Precedence: bulk Content-Return: Prohibited Return-Path: owner-rq-rules-digest RQ Rules Digest: Saturday, 26 November 1994 Volume 01 : Number 029 RULES OF THE ROAD 1. Do not include large sections of a message in your reply. Especially not to say "Yeah, I agree." Those who do will be lynched. 2. Use an appropriate Subject line. RQR: will be prepended to it. 3. Do not engage in a point-by-point analysis or rebuttal of another person's message. It is too confusing for others to follow, qualifies as nit-picking, and it usually leads to flame wars. 4. There is no number 4. TABLE OF CONTENTS Matthew Diesch RQR: Mounted rulings David Dunham via RadioMail RQR: Healsharp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: matthew@mafusbox.demon.co.uk (Matthew Diesch) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 94 09:48:20 GMT Subject: RQR: Mounted rulings In article: <9411211852.AA16829@sonata.cc.purdue.edu> jacobus@sonata.cc.purdue.edu writes: > Scythians kept their bows in holsters for their bows on their > left hips. Can you keep a strung bow in it (I don't think so, > but pictures from ancient greek vases seem to suggest this was so.) > And can yo string a bow while riding (right now, only on a stopped horse > > Yes, you can keep a strung bow in a holster. You'd just need to change the > string a little more often. Actually it's not the string that's the problem but that the bow will "settle" if it is left strung for long periods of time and will loose power and cast eventually probably becoming useless. If you ever go and watch a long bow shoot you will see virtually all the archers unstringing their bows between each end of 6 arrows on stringing it again as they prepare to shoot again after collecting. Even modern target recurve bows made of metal with carbon fibre limbs don't like to be left strung all the time. The only bows you see left strung all the time are compounds (the ones with wheels on the ends) and that is partly because it's a real pain to string them. All that said the mongols did carry strung bows in quivers on their horses but probably only when going into battle, not when just travelling around except maybe if in hostile territory. > I could probably string a light bow while riding > at a walk--my technique does not require that you stick the bow in the ground > or brace it against anything, but it is limited by your thigh muscle > strength. I'm a wimp and I can string a 30lb pull bow by wrapping my leg > around it and bending it against my leg while stringing it (this is a recurve, > not a straight staff bow, by the way, and horsemen prefer recurves). Yep, this is a pretty standard method but the way I do it I think the horses body would probably get in the way. Mafu. ------------------------------ From: David Dunham (via RadioMail) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 20:16:47 -0800 Subject: RQR: Healsharp >From: Keith Ivey > >On Wed, 23 Nov 1994, boris wrote: >> My favorite variation so far (for which I haven't heard a snazzy >> name such as Healsharp or Dispel Damage) allows only the largest >> Heal cast on a wound to have any effect. Thus if two Heal 2s were >> cast on the wound above, the second would have no effect. If >> someone later cast a Heal 4, then two more points would be healed. > >I assumed this *was* Healsharp. My understanding was that the term "healsharp" was applied to a spell that enhances First Aid in some way. What you describe doesn't really need a name, it's just the way healing works (in my PenDragon Pass game, at least). ------------------------------ End of RQ Rules Digest: V1 #29 ****************************** 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.