From: David Dunham , via RadioMail (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Tue 16 Nov 1993 - 02:41:53 EET
>staats@MIT.EDU (Richard C. Staats)
>If you are running a session with five or more people, you can
>only have "so many" complex social intrigue type plots that can get them
>all totally involved whereas in combat, almost all characters can be
>involved
An excellent point. Though in those legendary (i.e. not my own) campaigns where everyone's from the same cult and/or culture, it's probably easier.
>From: 100270.337@CompuServe.COM (Nick Brooke)
>BTW, Peltasts largely for (a) the historical correctness of having them
>with Hoplites; (b) the *perfect* shape of their shields, for the Lunar
>army.
The Scythians had moon-shaped shields, too. If Grazers == Scythians, maybe that's one reason the Lunars are more or less leaving them alone?
>From: sandyp@idcube.idsoftware.com (Sandy Petersen)
>> How tall is the Block?
>Several miles. In my campaign, I always claimed 5 miles, but if
>someone is able to make calculations proving that I'm an oaf, I'll
>back down at once.
Then I think the Block would definitely be visible in Sartar -- that's vastly taller than any Earthly object -- and probably further, especially when atmospheric conditions are right. Pperhaps with Orlanth "suppressed" by the Lunars, the Block is more frequently visible in the Empire, providing an ominous foreshadowing of what can happen to Chaos?
(My distance was based on the RQ2 map.) Again, "I've seen Mt Rainier (14410 ft) from Othello, WA, a distance of around 168 mi (270 km)."
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