*** JUNK MAIL ***Re: [Rq-rules] Conversions and origins

[Jim Bickmeyer]

> >I intended these to add flavor and to "defamiliarize" the players' 
> >expectations about things, trying to get them away from thinking in 
> >terms of rigid amounts.

From: Wayne Shaw <shaw at caprica.com>
> The problem I find with this is that it also all too easily destroys 
> many people's ability to visualize; a lot of people don't engage well 
> with strange units of measurement, even relatively intuitive ones.


I've used pace for yards/meters.  It worked well.   Then again, I'm use to doing rough measurements by 'pacing' out the yards.

Steve, I say go with pace or stride.

Jim Bickmeyer