[Rq-rules] Thanks!

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> People in this discussion keep coming up with problems
> which either should not be problems at all or are
> easily remedied.
>
> Action ranks (Mythworld's term for this) do not
> involve movement; that is a separate matter.  However,
> the other "problems" Steve mentions can and should be
> covered in the stats for the weapons.
>
> Long weapons (pikes, for instance) have minimum as
> well as maximum ranges.  Get inside that minimum and
> you are relatively safe - at least from that weapon -
> shortswords and daggers are another matter.
>
> Weapons have their own AR.  Heavy weapons are slower,
> despite a generally heavier damage when they hit.
> Therefore they have a higher AR than a light (and less
> damaging) weapon of the same range.
>
> If all this is built into the rules and stats, it is
> quite easy to handle.  It is just when these details
> are left out in the interest of "simplicity" (Greg
> Stafford's argument for rejecting my rules for RQ3)
> that things get complicated.
>
> Yeah, it is closer to RQ2, but then I have never
> denied Mythworld's origin in my attempt to suggest
> rules for the then in progress RQ3.  I lost that
> attempt and thus Mythworld was published.
>
> Someone once said that as long as only one person can
> fit in a door at a time, then there must be some rule
> of etiquite to determine who goes first.  It is the
> same with SR/AR.
>
> Paul Cardwell


I always though RQ3 SR was lower the longer a weapon was (plus the
bigger/faster the character), which is quite easy to understand IMO. Then
if one gets close, the situation reverses itself, where the roman with the
gladius suddenly has the advantage over teh macedonian with the long spear
who must either fight at SR/attach disadvantage or drop spear and pull
sword, thereby opening himself up to a free attack or two from his roman
adversary. Then again this is from memory, so I may be off the mark in
terms of the exact rules.
Tony