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Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 3:31 pm
by dier_cire
People's perception of 2ft may be different, but I can grab a yard stick and show exactly what is and isn't legal.
(tries helplessly to describe this in other ways and gives up)
I guess the short of it is if safety becomes opinion/common sense based, I will not fight under that system. This isn't a threat but more that I just wouldn't feel comfortable with it as I know where it ends and the sound it makes.
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 3:50 pm
by Zeira
I like common sense based rules. I've used them my whole life and I'm doing pretty well. Common sense is easy. Don't walk off the bridge. Don't get too close to the other guy. Works good.
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 4:00 pm
by GM_Chris
I like chocolate cake.
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 4:22 pm
by Ark
GM_Chris wrote:I like chocolate cake.
me too +1
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 5:16 pm
by GM-Phil
One thing I want to do at the next WH event, and maybe you guys can do it at the next FH event is take a little extra time during the Game-on meeting and have a 5 minute demonstatrion of Charging. First sit down and agree on maybe 4 most likely scenarios, and go through them with the players to visually show them what is and is not Charging. I think that will help out a lot.
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:27 pm
by GM_Chris
Great idea! Mike will make it happen! Go Mike!
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:37 pm
by Fenn
-blink-
-head shake-
wow.
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:09 pm
by GM-Mike
Thanks Fenn, that summarized things quite well
And yes, Phil, we had the same thought on our end.
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:51 pm
by GM_Chris
Well I wont be there and my wife actually made the post for me.
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:01 pm
by Woden
talk about subjective perceptions...
..if it takes a whole 5 minutes to demonstrate how NOT to knock someone down Ill claw my own eyes out.
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:48 am
by Atrum Draconus
Todd you aren't getting it, you already know how to fight safely, it seems like something everyone should know to you because it's second nature now, but that wasn't always the case. And people think different things are safe. I called a game stop in the mass battle where Woden died because an NPC was going through the middle of two lines of people standing shoulder to shoulder, completely bent at the waist, hitting people in the shins and they thought it was safe, they figured nobody got hurt, and they didn't knock anyone down. I hate stopping game for something like that but the person couldn't hear me saying stop doing that it's not safe over and over. And when I almost fell over to avoid kicking them in the head I felt I had to. That's just one blatantly bad instance but I used to see at least one un-safe fighting instance happen per game. I don't think 5 minutes at every other game on, or a short fighting class during game break or something like that is in any way a bad thing, it can only help. Besides, what doesn't make you claw your eyes out?
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:54 am
by cole45
pictures of megan fox?
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 1:35 pm
by Rhul
Essentially, if what you are doing is the real-life equivalent of press, you are charging. If someone is forced to give up ground to you due to physical contact, you are charging.
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 4:39 pm
by Atrum Draconus
cole45 wrote:pictures of megan fox?
No, he would still claw his eyes out either because she was asking him to share a sandwich or because she wasn't Rosario Dawson.
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:54 pm
by Woden
Atrum Draconus wrote:No, he would still claw his eyes out either because she was asking him to share a sandwich or because she wasn't Rosario Dawson.
Thats cold...
funny, but still cold.