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From: shadowrn@*********.com (Dan Turek)
Subject: Here's an idea that will speed up combat (or make it crawl)
Date: Wed Feb 13 10:50:08 2002
>Subject: Re: Here's an idea that will speed up combat
>
>At 2/12/02 12:50 PM, you wrote:
> >According to Derek Hyde, on Tue, 12 Feb 2002 the word on the street
>was...
> >
> > > As you can see just that little argument there because you're not
>going
> > > to get to observe and then do ANYTHING else and if you're looking for
> > > something detailed it's going to take you a while.

>Possibly just shift up Observe and Observe in Detail and change them over a
>bit.
>Normal: You see a man with a revolver
>Observe: You see a man with a Ruger Super Warhawk
>Observe in Detail: You see a man with a Ruger Super Warhawk. From what you
>can make out of the cylinder from your vantage it appears to only have two
>rounds left. The man's socks do not match and his wife no longer loves him
>having gone on to a younger man whom she is having an affair with at this
>very moment...
>
>You get the idea.

Wouldn't that be more like a Sherlock Holmes Intuitive Deduction test? And
it should take at least 10 to 20 actions of base time and perhaps assistance
with Psychology to determine the problem he has with his mother....

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