From: fannicm@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Re: Dancing Sword and THAC0, part II
Date: 2 Oct 92 10:44:39 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <1992Sep30.100559.7202@iscsvax.uni.edu>, boelter3945@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
> In article <1992Sep30.083904.18790@ugle.unit.no>, brunborg@solan.unit.no (]dne
>    Brunborg) writes:
>> My character, a fighter at 8th level, has just recently found a Sword of
>> Dancing. The fighter has a strenght score of 18,76 (+2/+4) and double
>> specialisation (+3/+3, per Unearthed Arcana), wich gives him a THAC0 of 8-x,
>> x=1..4.
>> BUT when I release the sword, my DM will just give it THAC0 13-x, not
>> counting neither strenght nor specialisation. [...]
>> 
>> PPS: I've read my DMG now. It says: "The sword will fight alone at the same
>> level (and class) as its wielder." There goes my strenght bonus, but what
>> about specialisation? After all, if the sword knows what class and level
>> it's wielder is, it should know if he's a specialist?
>> Aadne.
> 
>    Well, I wouldn't give the strength bonus either, as there wouldn't be a way
> to transfer that to the sword when it dances.  However, I would give the
> specialization bonus, for this reason:
> 
>    When the sword dances (on round 5), I interpret it that for the first four
> rounds you are 'teaching' the sword how you fight, so during the next four
> rounds, it can copy how you fought on its own, then it needs to be 'retaught'
> for the next four rounds, and so on.  Specialization is a skill learned by the
> fighter, so when the sword 'learns' how the fighter fights, it will copy that
> part of it when it dances.
> 
>    Makes sense?  Just my own opinion on how to work it.
> 
>                                         John "Nightwind" Boelter
> 
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-- 
	That is a very logical way of looking at it, but if you subscribe to
that logic, I submit that you should alter one other rule as well.  If you
teach the swords how to fight, it seems to gain in power as it learns more
about you (logical progression), but when you let it go, it begins to loose
what it has learned.  So, all that means is that the progression of plusses
should be changed to +1 through +4, then +4 through +1, and when I reaches
+1 it has 'forgotten' everything and you need to re-teach it...After all,
how long a memory can a hunk of metal have???
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