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Message no. 1
From: Robert Watkins <robertdw@*******.com.au>
Subject: Re: Guns & Munchkins (WAS: Quickened spells and Horrors)
Date: Sat, 11 May 96 21:05:16 +1030
> HEY! I take offence at that! The way I figure it, a troll considering
>his size, would have as little trouble with an assualt canon, as a human
>would have with a rifle/shotgun. No-one complains about a human carrying
>a shotgun on a run, but if a troll carries an assualt canon he's a
>munchkin! ( where does that come from by the way? )

It's not the fact that he can carry it... it _is_ physically possible to
run around with something like an assault cannon.

What is munchkinous about it (and no, I don't know where it came from) is
the fact that the GM lets them. If you wander around with military-grade
bang-bang, then other people, usually with more military-grade bang-bang,
come and try to take it away from you. In most areas of Seattle, for
example, that would be the police. In the Barrens, it would be the gangs.
Personally, I'd rather take on Lone Star.


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