Comments on RQ:AiG Skills from George Harris

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From: gharris@Jade.Tufts.EDU
Date: Wed 26 Jan 1994 - 18:06:05 EET

        Skills: Craft/Battle? You have *got* to be kidding.
What's next, Craft/Swim? Craft/Broadsword Attack?

        Effects of Encumbrance on Skills: This has been
mentioned as a problem before. Why does Siz and only Siz affect
how much someone is weighed down and impaired by what they're
carrying? To me it seems much more reasonable that Str would be
the mitigating factor here. The best suggestion I've seen was

        Encumbrance Penalty = (Total Encubrance) - Strength.

        This way, a Siz 9 Str 20 Dwarf can carry things better
than a Siz 21 Str 13 Troll, which makes a lot more sense than the
other way around. Change this, please!

        Ceremony: What was wrong with the old Fibonacci-based
Ceremony table? If there was a big clamor to change it, I missed
it. Also, I'm very suspect of any table that has an entry for
someone doing a ceremony for 49 years. 

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George W. Harris                gharris@jade.tufts.edu  
Dept. of Mathematics            Tufts University 
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