From: owner-rq-rules-digest To: rq-rules-digest@hops.wharton.upenn.edu Subject: RQ Rules Digest: V3 #105 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, 13 November 1996 Volume 03 : Number 105 TABLE OF CONTENTS Loren Miller ADMIN: lists & archives looking for new ow Jim Bickmeyer Is Slow the reverse of Mobility David Cake Hie wagon 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: "Loren Miller" Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:22:11 EST Subject: ADMIN: lists & archives looking for new owner Hi Everybody, For various reasons I want to get out of the ownership and administration of the mailing lists that I am running, and also out of the business of running the official archive sites for them. I'd like to have handed over ownership of all the public mailing lists I currently own to someone else by the beginning of 1997, and any that are not taken over will be discontinued at that time. If you have a large and safe and well-backed-up site where you could store the current and any future archives of one or more of the mailing lists, and if you could also administer those mailing lists, then I would like to talk to you about taking over ownership. Here is the information about the mailing lists and/or archives which I would like to move to someone else who is responsible and can keep them for a while. list name subscribers archive size ================ =========== ============ glorantha-digest 544 25 MB gid & digest 60 1 MB rq-rules & digest 416 10 MB world-design & digest 398 9 MB rq-digest (old stuff) - 25 MB grass (old stuff) - 8 MB Yours, hopefully, Loren - -- +++++++++++++++++++++++23 Loren Miller Life at the water's edge is the real life for men and women, and penguins ------------------------------ From: "Jim Bickmeyer" Date: Thu, 14 Nov 96 02:35:43 UT Subject: Is Slow the reverse of Mobility Arno Kuisma responded to my query of a powerful Slow spell with some good optional explanations of effects. The one that works best for me is what he considered the slickest. "...is to affect the brain directly, telling it that it isn't ABLE to move forvard. (Or to be exact, the body can't do this.) You can use your muscles just fine, except you feel like you are glued to the ground. (Or preferrably surrounded closely by four walls) Small movement of feet is possible, to stay upright or to change direction, but every attempt to move is countered by the brain. (But Jim, there's a wall there.) Attackers could gain the benefit of a prone target but not much else." I looked at the Mobility spell which simply increases the movement by 1/SR with 1FG/3MP(or fraction of 3MP). So I'm thinking that Slow is more a reversal of Mobility. It gives a resistance from the inside of the effected character, similar to Arno's explanation. However, I'm having some trouble with the attacker getting the prone target benefit. What I need to determine is whether the Slow spell will reduce action type skills? Will the spell just make action skills take longer? If Slow has these effects, then does the Mobility spell increase the chance to do action skills and/or decrease the time it takes to do action skills? Jim (Its all a Chaos plot) ------------------------------ From: davidc@cs.uwa.edu.au (David Cake) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:46:01 +0800 Subject: Hie wagon The Mobility question reminded me - I worked out that about 4 points of Hie Wagon means you can go at about 80km/h, and add Extension 5 means it lasts a day. Yee-ha! When it absolutely positively has to be in Jillaro overnight... So, now I know why the Lunar empire has those nifty magic roads. Look both ways before crossing! Cheers David PS practically, there is the fatigue of the mounts to consider. But Hie Wagon doesn't increase fatigue like Mobility does. ------------------------------ End of RQ Rules Digest: V3 #105 ******************************* This is the bottom of the RuneQuest Rules Digest. RuneQuest is a trademark of Avalon Hill, and Glorantha is a trademark of Chaosium. 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