Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Duels are extremely rare, and so are one on one fights for that matter.

Which is why I remembered that we've kept "facing". Surprise or numbers always kept showing up!

And the insistence of later games in treating an adventuring party as a series of one on one duels is one of my major complaints against them. If a band of Orcs is hiding in a side passage and attacks the PC party from the side, the notion that "they don't get flanking because they don't attack from two sides at once" is so fucking ridiculous that whoever thought up that rule, and anybody who thinks it is a good idea, needs to be punched repeatedly in the nutsack until they smarten up.

Then that's "surprise", and they get a side facing bonus, or back facing if they wait for the PCs to pass them up.

Originally Posted by Greentongue

Thanks!
So many great reads. So little time.
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You're welcome. I guess I'm surprised that more folks don't use books like this for ideas for games; it was a basic part of our DNA.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Uncle,

Great!!! Helpful, yes as always!!! Would you have any other information about him? Such as his religious doctrines...Thanks.

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PS Thank you Uncle. I just downloaded your reference for a future read. Only 844 pages...now I have electronic pile-up as well!!! See post 5056... :0)

His doctrine was basically that the Twenty Temples were wrong, and people should talk to the gods through him and him alone. Oh, yeah, and the gods look with favor on all that nice stuff in Hekellu, and it's time for a little redistribution of the wealth.

Your welcome. Have fun with that young Fourth Hussar!

Originally Posted by AsenRG

Excellent book, Uncle, and one that I hadn't seen despite having lots of respect for the author. Thank you!

You're welcome!

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

RPG writing got taken over by people who never played a wargame in their lives, and the hobby has suffered drastically as a result. The rules have been rewritten for D&D so that "tactics" now work like they do in most computer games; use your "special gizmo" attack at the right moment, or, more usually, mash a certain series of buttons in a certain order.

"wargame" is now a term of derision in most RPG circles.

Ah. Again, so much I've observed over the past decade is explained. Well, so it goes, I suppose.

Originally Posted by Greentongue

When you know it exists...
There are a Lot of books and you can't always tell their value by their cover.
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Very true! I get the impression that I'm on the other side of the Digital Divide, and a relic of the pre-Internet days when all we had for information sources were books. I read for fun and enjoyment, and am not a big media fan - although I've been typecast as one in the past - who spends a lot of time on things like Facebook and Twitter.

When I was putting First and Second Daughters through high school, getting them to read anything was an agony. If it wasn't Wiki, it wasn't.

I freely admit that I used to read a lot when playing out at Phil's, and made a very strong effort to seek out and read the books that he suggested. I learned an awful lot, which carried over into my gaming, many times to my advantage.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Yes Uncle. This is why I was asking about your library...

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Understood. One of these days I'll get somebody in to do a complete catalog of the library. There's something like 1,200 books on the shelves.