From: Eric Johnson-DeBaufre (imlac@acs.bu.edu)
Date: Sat 02 Oct 1993 - 13:21:14 EET
Let me first say how wonderful some of the recent discussion on the daily has been. Contrary to some people's fears that the discussions on the daily had become too rules oriented, most of the recent discussions have been about various aspects of Gloranthan culture, language, and spirituality. Contributions from people like Nick Brooke and Michael O'Brien make reading this digest trully pleasurable and educational. It just goes to show you that these things have a way of working themselves out without the need for moderated discussion. While I'm at it, thanks as well to Henk for the high quality and timeliness of this daily.
Although I have just praised the daily for returning to a more
Glorantha centered focus, I do have a question for those of you who may know
more about rules. Although combat is fairly infrequent in my game (we often
spend whole evenings without anyone so much as drawing a sword) there was a
situation that recently occurred involving mounted combat which made me wonder
whether or not I had resolved the encounter fairly. Let me detail the
situation for you: One of the players's characters, a huge, fat and rather
slow Storm Bull initiate, was charged by a spear wielding, mounted Zebra Rider
while in the Rubble. The Zebra Rider charged from approximately 40 meters
(moving at 8m/SR) and would have struck the crazed Bull-man on strike rank 5.
The SB, realizing that even a succesful parry might take him out of the fight,
decided to Dodge the charging Zebra Rider and slice at him with his broadsword
(which he would do on strike rank 7--I said he was _slow_). The Bull dodged
out of the way, but here is the question: If the Zebra Rider is assumed to
continue riding, he would be 8 meters away on SR6 and 16 meters away on SR7!
This would leave the SB no chance to attack with his sword, as there would
simply not be a target available. Does this sound right to everyone??
That is the way I ruled it, and it forced the rather pissed off Storm Bull
to drop his sword, grab a bow and shoot the zebra out from under the Zebra
Rider. Is there something in the rules that contradicts this?? I'd
appreciate any comments you all have.
Thanks,
Eric Johnson-DeBaufre
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