From: Jerome Darmont [darmont@libd1.univ-bpclermont.fr] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 1:23 AM To: blue_planet@lists.MPGN.COM Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points Hi all, I was wondering about the level/percentile dichotomy yesterday while re-reading the rules before playing Natural Law this week-end. I don't quite see the rationale behind the levels. Wouldn't a +2 bonus be clearer as +20 (especially to new moderators/new roleplayers)? This isn't much of an hindrance, but I'm curious. 8) The other point I wanted your opinion on is more marginal. It's about the characteristic scales. A creature with a scale N characteristic cannot challenge a scale N+1 characteristic. That's fine to me. Could it be reasonable to allow real good characters a roll anyway. Say, a character with 120/N could roll against 20/N+1? This sounds pretty unreal here, but imagine three or four big guys try to restrain a dolphin, if their strenghs added to 160, they'd roll for 60. I'm not familiar enough with the rules yet to assess if this may be good or not. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerome DARMONT, LIMOS, Universite Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II mailto:darmont@libd1.univ-bpclermont.fr http://altern.org/darmont/ ICQ:8759237 *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Tun Kai Poh [t_poh@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 12:35 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - AKED T-32 and T-38 >This is a gun I made a while back. I have some others on disk, inculding = >an interesting twist to field weapons.... Lemme know if your interested. > >Planewalker Heck yeah! Post them on up! Kai Poh, Malaysian Lagomorph ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Adam Lewis [adamswork@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 8:31 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points ---Jerome Darmont wrote: Wouldn't a +2 bonus be clearer as +20 (especially > to new moderators/new roleplayers)? This isn't much of an hindrance, but I'm > curious. 8) > I agree. When I first read the book it seems I came across references to levels before it told me that a level was equal to 10 percentage points. A creature with a scale N characteristic cannot > challenge a scale N+1 characteristic. That's fine to me. Could it be > reasonable to allow real good characters a roll anyway. Say, a character > with 120/N could roll against 20/N+1? This sounds pretty unreal here, but > imagine three or four big guys try to restrain a dolphin, if their strenghs > added to 160, they'd roll for 60. I'm not familiar enough with the rules > yet to assess if this may be good or not. Anything is possible. The GM just needs to apply penalties. For your above example with the dolphin I would initially say that it would be impossible for 4 men to restrain a dolphin while in water, but I never tell my players that they aboslutely can't do something. As long as it's something they can attempt, I let them try. == AdamL ===== Safety Tip: On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Jerome Darmont [darmont@libd1.univ-bpclermont.fr] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 8:47 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points At 06:31 18/02/99 -0800, Adam Lewis wrote: > I agree. When I first read the book it seems I came across >references to levels before it told me that a level was equal to 10 >percentage points. Same for me. :) > Anything is possible. The GM just needs to apply penalties. For your >above example with the dolphin I would initially say that it would be >impossible for 4 men to restrain a dolphin while in water Sounds realistic, that's why I doubt my proposal really works. :/ Too bad, I found it elegant. :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerome DARMONT, LIMOS, Universite Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II mailto:darmont@libd1.univ-bpclermont.fr http://altern.org/darmont/ ICQ:8759237 *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Tun Kai Poh [t_poh@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 9:02 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Red Sky update and fan page info Hey, I got around to reading the updates of the adventures of the Red Sky Charter guys on the Biohazard website, and I was pretty impressed. You seem to be having a lot of fun games in Missouri. So, I gathered from the evidence that you take turns GMing? BTW, the website oughta have a link to my buddy Dave's page, which is at... [gratuitous plug] http://students.uts.ohio-state.edu/klegman.1/prof_cas.html The site has been updated again recently, and includes "Fishhooks," some previously unseen adventure seeds by yours truly. Kai ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Adam Lewis [adamswork@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 9:58 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points (and Water Con) ---Jerome Darmont wrote: > > Anything is possible. The GM just needs to apply penalties. For your > >above example with the dolphin I would initially say that it would be > >impossible for 4 men to restrain a dolphin while in water > > Sounds realistic, that's why I doubt my proposal really works. :/ Too > bad, I found it elegant. :) It was ;o) It would still work. Who was it that said, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong"? Maybe the dolphin pulls a fin muscle while wrestling with the men. Or maybe it's been less then 30 minutes since he last ate and he gets a cramp... You could have them do a luck roll and if the men outroll the dolphin by 40+ points then "something" happens to the dolphin that brings his attribute scale down to equal the humans. This is making me want to go out and wrestle a dolphin. Sounds like fun. Hey Jeff! How about a BP field trip? Biohazard should come up with the first Water Con, the floating convention. Go out into the Gulf of Mexico and we could do a LARP were we have to rescue real live Cubans. == AdamL ===== Safety Tip: On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Jerome Darmont [darmont@libd1.univ-bpclermont.fr] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 10:16 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points (and Water Con) At 07:58 18/02/99 -0800, Adam Lewis wrote: > It would still work. Who was it that said, "Anything that can go >wrong, will go wrong"? Murphy? 8) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerome DARMONT, LIMOS, Universite Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II mailto:darmont@libd1.univ-bpclermont.fr http://altern.org/darmont/ ICQ:8759237 *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Kevin C. Carpenter [kccarpenter@mindspring.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 10:43 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points (and Water Con) You'd most likely just end up with four very bruised, if not broken, men. Trying to hold on to even a harbor porpoise would be difficult enough, and they're only about four feet long. This is one area of the BP rules that I do like, the scaling. It does a great job representing areas in which certain individuals (in this case, dolphins) will outclass even the most skilled humans in the water. Now, if you have a dolphin on land, he's not really going anywhere. :P - Kevin C. Carpenter ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Lewis To: Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points (and Water Con) > > >---Jerome Darmont wrote: > >> > Anything is possible. The GM just needs to apply penalties. For your >> >above example with the dolphin I would initially say that it would be >> >impossible for 4 men to restrain a dolphin while in water >> >> Sounds realistic, that's why I doubt my proposal really works. :/ Too >> bad, I found it elegant. :) > > > It was ;o) > > It would still work. Who was it that said, "Anything that can go >wrong, will go wrong"? > > Maybe the dolphin pulls a fin muscle while wrestling with the men. >Or maybe it's been less then 30 minutes since he last ate and he gets >a cramp... > > You could have them do a luck roll and if the men outroll the >dolphin by 40+ points then "something" happens to the dolphin that >brings his attribute scale down to equal the humans. > > This is making me want to go out and wrestle a dolphin. Sounds >like fun. > > Hey Jeff! How about a BP field trip? > > Biohazard should come up with the first Water Con, the floating >convention. Go out into the Gulf of Mexico and we could do a LARP were >we have to rescue real live Cubans. > > > > >== >AdamL >===== >Safety Tip: On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. > *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: rql [rqlii@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 11:30 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points (and Water Con) This issue a scaling has confused me in the past. In the 4 guys and a dolphin example, 4 guys trying to restrain dolphin in deep water just get dragged all over the place. A dolphin on land is near helpless. But what about in say 5 feet of water ? The dolphin can still swim, but the 4 guys now have solid footing to brace themselves and apply their combined strength. (Note: This came up as we were trying to wrestle a dolphin into a truck we had backed down a beach into the water. ***dolphin-napping***) We ended up tranquilizing it to avoid the scale rules, but I'm interested in knowing "the official word" or at least popular consensus. ---"Kevin C. Carpenter" wrote: > > You'd most likely just end up with four very bruised, if not broken, men. > Trying to hold on to even a harbor porpoise would be difficult enough, and > they're only about four feet long. > > This is one area of the BP rules that I do like, the scaling. It does a > great job representing areas in which certain individuals (in this case, > dolphins) will outclass even the most skilled humans in the water. > > Now, if you have a dolphin on land, he's not really going anywhere. :P > > - Kevin C. Carpenter > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Adam Lewis > To: > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 9:58 AM > Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points (and Water Con) > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Auberon [fskln1@uaf.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 12:55 PM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points Jerome Darmont wrote: > > I was wondering about the level/percentile dichotomy yesterday while re- reading > the rules before playing Natural Law this week-end. I don't quite see the > rationale behind the levels. Wouldn't a +2 bonus be clearer as +20 (especially > to new moderators/new roleplayers)? This isn't much of an hindrance, but I'm > curious. 8) I'd wondered about that, but the only answer I could think of is that it keeps things simple. Rather than wonder whether it should be 15%, or 22%, you just ask "How many levels?" 1 sounds too easy, 3 too tough, so you go with 2. > The other point I wanted your opinion on is more marginal. It's about the > characteristic scales. A creature with a scale N characteristic cannot > challenge a scale N+1 characteristic. That's fine to me. Could it be > reasonable to allow real good characters a roll anyway. Say, a character > with 120/N could roll against 20/N+1? This sounds pretty unreal here, but Actually, I think somewhere it says that no matter how high a scale 5 stat is, it just can't ever compete with a scale 6. It's more than just 100 higher; it's a whole 'nother ball of wax. > imagine three or four big guys try to restrain a dolphin, if their strenghs > added to 160, they'd roll for 60. I'm not familiar enough with the rules > yet to assess if this may be good or not. Think of it this way: if you want to restrain another human, you pin the arms and legs. One person of sufficient strength and training can do that, two or three without. To restrain a dolphin, you'd have to hold everything aft of his pectoral fins. No matter how many people you have, you just aren't going to be able to hold against all that muscle mass, and as long as the flukes are moving, the dophin's gonna win the fight. As an afterthought, if you can, consider pinning the pectorals. The point here is that it's a pretty impressive difference. Even if you're the world's strongest man, you're not an even match for a dolphin without tools (weapons). It's the opposable thumb that's the thing. -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= "I never get involved in my own life. It's too much trouble" - Michael Garibaldi (Babylon 5) *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: c718678@showme.missouri.edu Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 1:19 PM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Red Sky update and fan page info I liked your fishhooks, especially the Garden one. Ancient and modern mysteries, safari, and human corpse fertilizer - who could ask for anything more?:) Also, "Lottery" was cute. (Yes, I just described mass destruction as "cute"). If you haven't read Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", do. One thing I suggest for your page in your friend's site is a link back to the main page of the site (if there is one and I just missed it somehow, ignore me:) Later, Eva @@@(* > *)@@@ On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Tun Kai Poh wrote: > Hey, I got around to reading the updates of the adventures of the Red > Sky Charter guys on the Biohazard website, and I was pretty impressed. > You seem to be having a lot of fun games in Missouri. So, I gathered > from the evidence that you take turns GMing? > > BTW, the website oughta have a link to my buddy Dave's page, which is > at... > > [gratuitous plug] > > http://students.uts.ohio-state.edu/klegman.1/prof_cas.html > > The site has been updated again recently, and includes "Fishhooks," some > previously unseen adventure seeds by yours truly. > > Kai > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > *************************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line > 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. > *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 99 22:36:28 -0600 From: Planewalker Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - T-32 repost attach. (AD) Since my first message was chopped for some reason, I will attempt to send a complete repost of my T-32 and T-38 again. If this does or does not work, please let me know, If you can help me with my clipping porblem, please let me know. Planewalker AKED T-32 and T-38 ""Longarm"" On the frontiers of Poseidon, there is no doubt that at many times, a person's best friend can be a firearm. You can hunt with it, signal others with it, and defend yourself against the unknown wilds of the bush. However, there is one fundamental problem with conventional firearms: they are a separate item from your person, and when that item is removed from you, you are defenseless. Many horror stories are told by Wardens of the time their friend couldn't get to his weapon in time to fend off a native animal. Fortunately, AKED Securities has been listening to the stories, and we have the solution to prevent such stories from becoming commonplace: The T-32 and T- 38 ""Longarm"" series of automatic firearms. The "Longarm" series is a simple variation of conventional firearm manufacturing techniques. We take common weapon components and rearrange them to produce a flat design. We then re-position the binary propellant and ammunition clips to the top back portion of the weapon. After all of that, we place the weapon in a casing designed to fit over the forearm to allow full use of both hands. If used in conjunction with current neural jack technology, you can fire the weapon without moving a hand muscle. Simply move your arm and think. It's that simple! The weapon is bonded to a form-fitting fabric sleeve to allow the user to simply slide their arm into the sleeve and use the weapon. The triggerless firing mechanism is placed in a bar that your hand wraps around, allowing ease of use in almost any situation. For those times when you need to be armed and ready, but also need to carry items, a built-in safety feature prevents the gun from going off in the next three presses of the trigger. (The number of presses can be changed by the owner.) And what if you just want to carry the weapon but don't expect combat? The bar flips up to allow full use of your hand. Should an unexpected firefight arise, a press of the release mechanism at the side of the gun flips the bar forward in less than half a second, minimizing your response time. The T-32 and T-38 both take standard bioplastic shells and binary propellant canisters, and both weapons confirm to GEO safety codes in all areas of performance. In fact, the "Longarm" series is rated highest in the area of durability than any other sidearm. Our use of top-quality industrial bioplastic, combined with patented chemicals for the prevention of fast fungus and other biological corrosives, makes the T-32 and T-38 the most reliable weapon you can have with you in the backwaters of Poseidon. The wilds of Poseidon are never reliable in their response. Make sure your firearm is. Order the "Longarm" today! ACCESS DENIED The T-32 and T-38 are exactly what they seem to be: small automatic weapons placed made for carrying along the forearm rather than in the hand. This poses some unique problems and uses for the weapon. The weapon is fully automatic, but it's ammo is standard light or heavy caliber pistol ammo (the T-32 takes light ammo, the T-38 take heavy.) Therefore, the damage it does is the same as those handguns. The advantage is that the "Longarm" throws them out of the gun quicker. And even though the gun is essentially a submachine gun, the weapon is slightly larger and bulkier than a normal gun, allowing a larger binary propellant canister and larger ammo clips, which also makes the "Longarm" desirable. The safety mechanism works for the most part. It's up to the storyteller to decide if the mechanism works all of the time, though. If not, assign a small chance of failure, say 2-5%, when the user has the trigger bar down and isn't paying attention. Note that with a neural jack, the user doesnıt even need the trigger bar down. Many people with an uplink jack are looking at this weapon for the ease-of-use factor. Think about it; if you could purchase a weapon that essentially becomes a part of you, that would be a pretty good investment. The weapon is made of a very high-quality bioplastic that retains it's strength, but is half the weight of normal industrial. Many people are beginning to wonder where they get their supplies. AKED is keeping the secret under wraps for now, but the GEO is planning an investigation team; if a bioplastic could be developed that was proof against fast fungus, it would be a breakthrough in engineering on Poseidon. AKED is keeping quiet, though, and for good reason‹they really donıt know why the plastic is like that. The only explanation they have is the fact that several soft spurts were seen breeding in the bioplastic growth tanks and laid eggs there. The soft spurts were removed safely, and the eggs removed, but the plastic in those tanks has never quite grown right ever since. Only two of the original tanks remain functional, and the others were destroyed by the sanitation system and fast fungus. These tanks have taken three times as long to produce a batch of bioplastic, but the plastic is amazingly resilient to biologically-induced corrosion. Microscopic study shows that thereıs something in the plastic, but itıs hard to tell exactly what. It might be a fungus of some sort, but the significance of that fact eludes scientists. *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:41:00 -0600 (CST) From: c718678@showme.missouri.edu Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - AKED T-32 and T-38 "Longarm" (AD) I like! Imagine all the fun arm-angles one could shoot from - might hurt the ol' elbow cartiledge a dose, but its better then getting eaten. Jolly Access Denied, too:) Later, Eva @@@(* > *)@@@ *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 07:02:15 PST From: "Tun Kai Poh" Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Red Sky update and fan page info Hey, I got around to reading the updates of the adventures of the Red Sky Charter guys on the Biohazard website, and I was pretty impressed. You seem to be having a lot of fun games in Missouri. So, I gathered from the evidence that you take turns GMing? BTW, the website oughta have a link to my buddy Dave's page, which is at... [gratuitous plug] http://students.uts.ohio-state.edu/klegman.1/prof_cas.html The site has been updated again recently, and includes "Fishhooks," some previously unseen adventure seeds by yours truly. Kai ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:43:21 -0600 From: "Kevin C. Carpenter" Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points (and Water Con) You'd most likely just end up with four very bruised, if not broken, men. Trying to hold on to even a harbor porpoise would be difficult enough, and they're only about four feet long. This is one area of the BP rules that I do like, the scaling. It does a great job representing areas in which certain individuals (in this case, dolphins) will outclass even the most skilled humans in the water. Now, if you have a dolphin on land, he's not really going anywhere. :P - - Kevin C. Carpenter - ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Lewis To: Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points (and Water Con) > > >---Jerome Darmont wrote: > >> > Anything is possible. The GM just needs to apply penalties. For >your >> >above example with the dolphin I would initially say that it would be >> >impossible for 4 men to restrain a dolphin while in water >> >> Sounds realistic, that's why I doubt my proposal really works. :/ Too >> bad, I found it elegant. :) > > > It was ;o) > > It would still work. Who was it that said, "Anything that can go >wrong, will go wrong"? > > Maybe the dolphin pulls a fin muscle while wrestling with the men. >Or maybe it's been less then 30 minutes since he last ate and he gets >a cramp... > > You could have them do a luck roll and if the men outroll the >dolphin by 40+ points then "something" happens to the dolphin that >brings his attribute scale down to equal the humans. > > This is making me want to go out and wrestle a dolphin. Sounds >like fun. > > Hey Jeff! How about a BP field trip? > > Biohazard should come up with the first Water Con, the floating >convention. Go out into the Gulf of Mexico and we could do a LARP were >we have to rescue real live Cubans. > > > > >== >AdamL >===== >Safety Tip: On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. > > > > >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > >*************************************************************************** >To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line >'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:54:51 -0900 From: Auberon Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points Jerome Darmont wrote: > > I was wondering about the level/percentile dichotomy yesterday while > re-reading > the rules before playing Natural Law this week-end. I don't quite see the > rationale behind the levels. Wouldn't a +2 bonus be clearer as +20 (especially > to new moderators/new roleplayers)? This isn't much of an hindrance, but I'm > curious. 8) I'd wondered about that, but the only answer I could think of is that it keeps things simple. Rather than wonder whether it should be 15%, or 22%, you just ask "How many levels?" 1 sounds too easy, 3 too tough, so you go with 2. > The other point I wanted your opinion on is more marginal. It's about the > characteristic scales. A creature with a scale N characteristic cannot > challenge a scale N+1 characteristic. That's fine to me. Could it be > reasonable to allow real good characters a roll anyway. Say, a character > with 120/N could roll against 20/N+1? This sounds pretty unreal here, but Actually, I think somewhere it says that no matter how high a scale 5 stat is, it just can't ever compete with a scale 6. It's more than just 100 higher; it's a whole 'nother ball of wax. > imagine three or four big guys try to restrain a dolphin, if their strenghs > added to 160, they'd roll for 60. I'm not familiar enough with the rules > yet to assess if this may be good or not. Think of it this way: if you want to restrain another human, you pin the arms and legs. One person of sufficient strength and training can do that, two or three without. To restrain a dolphin, you'd have to hold everything aft of his pectoral fins. No matter how many people you have, you just aren't going to be able to hold against all that muscle mass, and as long as the flukes are moving, the dophin's gonna win the fight. As an afterthought, if you can, consider pinning the pectorals. The point here is that it's a pretty impressive difference. Even if you're the world's strongest man, you're not an even match for a dolphin without tools (weapons). It's the opposable thumb that's the thing. - -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= "I never get involved in my own life. It's too much trouble" - Michael Garibaldi (Babylon 5) *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:47:17 +0100 From: Jerome Darmont Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Technical points At 06:31 18/02/99 -0800, Adam Lewis wrote: > I agree. When I first read the book it seems I came across >references to levels before it told me that a level was equal to 10 >percentage points. Same for me. :) > Anything is possible. The GM just needs to apply penalties. For your >above example with the dolphin I would initially say that it would be >impossible for 4 men to restrain a dolphin while in water Sounds realistic, that's why I doubt my proposal really works. :/ Too bad, I found it elegant. :) - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerome DARMONT, LIMOS, Universite Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II mailto:darmont@libd1.univ-bpclermont.fr http://altern.org/darmont/ ICQ:8759237 *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.