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At 04:52 PM 10/16/05 -0700, you wrote: <br>
<font face="arial" size=2><blockquote type=cite cite>I ran across this
link:
<a href="http://www.etherealpursuits.com/ep_tips_ballistics.htm">http://www.etherealpursuits.com/ep_tips_ballistics.htm</a><br>
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It has some interesting information/tables about how high things must be
thrown/fired in order to get a certain distance. Basically, if you are
in a 20' high cave and you see a goblin 100 feet away, can you
realistically hit it with your light crossbow? Anyway, take a
look.<br>
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I was thinking about movement rates too, and the game rates just don't
seem right...especially the flying ones....they're just WAY too slow.
The people movement seems OK, but the animals and creatures are just
unrealistic.<br>
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The attached spreadsheet shows rateas of speeds in FPS amd MPH...both
items we can relate to (except you metrics out there). Anyway, I
included walking speed (about 2.5-3.0 MPH or MR of 1), included the
websites numbers for thrown items (daggers, hatchets, spears, javelins -
these seemed pretty accurate...I checked Olympic data on the javelin, for
instance). I also included infor for a car moving 60 MPH, thrown
baseball at 100MPH (just happens to be same speed as a shortbow arrow),
and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, and horse speeds...like the fastest horse
on record (for Triple Crown Stuff) was about 40MPH or a MR of 72 (turn)
or 18 (PMR)!!!...the rules call for a Riding Horse IV to be MR 32...which
is barely faster than a 4-minute mile!!!<br>
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Anyway, the flying speeds seem to be biggest problem. Dragons only fly
MR 32 or 34? That's less than 20 MPH!!!<br>
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OK...So, yes, this is an official rant. But you guys seem to like the
more realistic aspects of some of the stuff.<br>
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sorry. Official rants are 2 windows down. This window is
closed :)<br>
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Horse movement did seem slow but you have to consider many favtors.
In horse movement your doing a short combat not going across a valley to
battle someone. <br>
With Faerry they aren't little birds or sprites. <br>
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Faerry is 27 and Sprite 32 I believe. So being bigger they have
more mass to move. An elephant with wings would likely have MR 1
:)<br>
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Plus must figure that this is AVERAGE stats. There are always
exceptions. tThe standard horse may vary from culture to culture. A
pony horse from the Zen'da is better kept up than a warrior in Clima who
only rides his horse in parades. <br>
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Interesting file will examine it though more. <br>
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