It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/05/05 20:31Hey folks, your friendly rules representative here, and it is getting to be that time again. This year at Clan the CoM will be discussing changes to our rulebook. do we have any suggestions? Let me know what you think needs to be changed, what about the rule-book sucks? how should we fix it.
I'm all ears.
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Oderic
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/05/06 02:15I'd like to see a clarification on the rule about 2 weapons, one hand, defining a difference between holding 2 swords in one hand and a sword held in the back hand while wielding a polearm. It's a situation that's come up recently in our park. I'm basing the clarification on this thread:
specifically Oznog's response regarding the intent of the rule being to eliminate 2 Swords in one hand and attempting to use that to cheese extra damage.
Thanks,
Oderic QTBecause without the garb we looked like dorks, and with the garb we looked like dorks with a purpose. - CioCio on E-sam
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Leon
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/05/06 03:57Clarification on how armor that is not made from metal or lether would be raited. I.E. my bone or bamboo armore idias. in my opinion they qualify as materials that would be used in that time period.
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Grendel
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/05/06 14:32clarify/change? define if getting hit in the shield hand, when holding a down sword, - does that count as a loss of limb (shield doesn't protect the hand, but weapon in hand does) not sure if you're protected or not, if the sword or the shield rule takes effect?Dragoon Strike First. Strike Hard. No Mercy. Hús Vetra Skald IMU
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Hoshi Akuma
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/05/08 06:41How about a change of removing the 5:1 ratio for archers. There are plenty of other projectile types and anti archer magic.When there is no light, there is dark; When there is no dark, there is light; When there is both dark and light, there is Bendu
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Medryn
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/04 03:35Come on folks. Rules changes have to be posted by me by the end of the month... it's your chance to go crazy, nothing is out of bounds... seriously.
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Stormreaver
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/04 05:39One suggestion is to bring back the barbarian self heal as an either or with the powerful blows.
Argument for that option is that most battle games do not include monsters and thus is a usless ability the majority of the time and since barbis only have 2 pts of armor max and cant carry any enchantments that could enhance that its a balance.
Either or at that level, choose 1 for the entire game
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Barthalemue
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/04 22:04I think that with the bard enchantment `Confidence' shoule be a tbale showing a mock 7th level for each class. Or some other advantage for 6th level characters."Let me explain this to you once. If I kill you: You will be awake, you will be facing me, and you'll be armed." -Malcolm Reynolds -Firefly "Your puch should begin in the soles of your feet and end in the back of your opponent's skull." -Tyr -Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
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Hoshi Akuma
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/11 07:01OOOOO and I think this one is important. How about a clarification and addition into the rulebook as to what half-draw EXACTLY is. Ie: Half draw of arrow or half-draw of 28 inch draw length. Also removing the Wooden arrows part seeing as how that is a very bad idea and the carbon arrows are much cheaper than before.When there is no light, there is dark; When there is no dark, there is light; When there is both dark and light, there is Bendu
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Medryn
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/24 02:08Alright, time's running out. Deadline is the 30th. Post your stuff before the 25th if you want me to consider it.
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Lumpy
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/26 16:44Crap! I had somthing.Yes, hate me, hate me with all your being and let the hate flow through you!
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/26 23:41me too! ah well. such is life."But right now I'm a little concerned about my pants, since I don't know where they are." - Valathina Nailo
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Medryn
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/27 01:49Well post it and I'll see what I can do
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Barthalemue
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/29 21:17Maybe Berserk armor could be considered natural,invulnerability armor."Let me explain this to you once. If I kill you: You will be awake, you will be facing me, and you'll be armed." -Malcolm Reynolds -Firefly "Your puch should begin in the soles of your feet and end in the back of your opponent's skull." -Tyr -Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
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Lumpy
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Re:It's RULES CHANGE time - 2008/06/30 04:23Alright. Here's my input for consideration.
-one thing that might be a good idea is to add a small reference into the armour section that translates the thicknesses we use for leather into the Oz measurement that leather is sold by and perhapse a visual reference to show how thick 1/16 and 3/16 looks.
-Clairify that laten metals(copper alloys) are kosher stand ins for steel in metal armour. Their strenght is inbetween mild steel and stainless steel so there is no reason for anyone to penalize them for being soft.
-Lower the metal thickness required for metal scales. As it stands technically metal scales have to be 16 gauge. Scales by their very nature overlap, to the extent most places will have double the thickness of the material used for the scales and in places triple the thickness. The 16 gauge thickness requirement for metal scales presents a myrad of problems. Firstly a cuirass plated in scales would likely weigh upwards of 40 pounds but afford only the protection of a butted hamata. Anothe thing to consider is that no commercial manufacturer makes 16 gauge thick scales. I propose that the thickness for scales be slightly under 1mm or simply say that metal scales do not have to adhere be 16 gauge.
-Perhaps this is a foolish idea, but maybe we could remove the distinction between round and non round sheilds and only require that sheilds conform to the size requirement for their bracket.
-Another thing that may be of use is to reintroduce the pavase for seige senarios. I think that this would likely make seige battles more like battles rather than archers stand behind the guys with sheilds while the castle team picks people off slowly in a miserable stalemate senario. I recall somthing like this wa seen in he 1st version of the rules, perhaps the old rule could be he basis of this new one?
-Another thing that I would like see happen is to see the thickness required for the wire in rivited maille dropped to about 1mm, even at this thickness it is several times more strong than a 16 gauge butted shirt.
-Lastly I belive that the sheet metal for plate armour thickness should be dropped to around 18 gauge. Historically most armour of this type was around 1mm on average in thickness with 16 gauge only seeing use in things like jousting armour, "bullet proof" armour, post-period parade armour and such. It Would likely also have the benefit of encourageing the use and productions of plate armour, which is always a crowd pleaser. It would also have the benefit of making more off the shelf armour useable in amtgard. Now I'm not saying drop metal thicknesses all around, things like butted haubreks practically need to be 16 gauge to hold up under their own weight. It just seems to me that if we used a more practical thickness like that which was used in period it would have a positive effect on amtgard in that armour would be somthing wears not somthing one cringes at the thought of lugging around only as long as necesary.
Now feel free to flame away, these were just some ideas that I've thrown around in my head for a while that seemed good enough to share.Yes, hate me, hate me with all your being and let the hate flow through you!
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