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Message no. 1
From: Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Improvised weapons (5 year old houserule)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:59:50 -0400
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At 09:39 AM 8/28/98 -0400, Bryan wrote:
> <snip chart>
>
> This is kinda cool but usually when someone
improvises
>an attack with a random piece of nearby debris I don't want to stop
and
>calculate it's damage code. I just assign one.

That's why, in the 5 years I've had that chart, I've never really used
it. Now if I knew ahead of time that I have a character who would be
using a particular improvised item as a weapon on a regular basis,
then I could see using the chart to come up with an offical damage
code for the thing.

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