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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:alexo#bigfoot,com">alexo#bigfoot,com</A> (Alex Oren)</LI>
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Jeff wrote:
} The worst part is that D&D dragons usually have a 50 strength or so.
} This would seem to imply that a couple of good human warriors (18 str)
} could wrestle one to the ground. If we assume that strength increases
} more or less along with size (volume), a 250-ft dragon would have a strength
} somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million. (It would be fine if the D&D
} strength chart wasn't linear, but it just doesn't work this way.
} Any descently experienced character can expect to live at least one
} shot from a dragon. Of course, this goes back to hit points not exactly
} being equal to your health points, which is yet another bone of mine...but
} anyhow)
I've been playing D&D and derivatives on and off from 85 to 96, mostly as a DM.
The most successful campaigns were those where we declared all rule-books to be
optional guidelines and established a set of rules that both the players and the
DM were comfortable with.
Keeping that in mind, let's discuss dragons...
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01377" HREF="msg01377.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Fri 20 Jun 1997, 13:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01400" HREF="msg01400.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Heroes</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Sat 21 Jun 1997, 11:12 GMT
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clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 26 Jun 1997, 02:23 GMT
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Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Fri 20 Jun 1997, 15:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01397" HREF="msg01397.html">Dragons... size and history</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Sat 21 Jun 1997, 10:40 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01398" HREF="msg01398.html">Dragons (Couldn't resist)</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Sat 21 Jun 1997, 10:46 GMT
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