Keg... thanks... and you probally will not believe this, but I would much rather see rocks get used in sometype of device over throwing also. I tried the slingshot once... (That was fun) And something about vulcanized rubber and a really large thread shot that one down.
Slings are completely out of the question in my book. I've used one, play tested and practived with it... With two (effective) ways of making them, I was able to rip bark off a tree with it... That means that flesh would be a bad thing. Thats why I dun think slings are the way to go. And I have been working on some, (excuse my spelling but it is late and I have had a bit too many margaritas to use Spell check effectively) Hyligh and lacross type weapons for slinging rocks. I am working out the kinks before I do anything with them though. But untill I can find a safe way to use em I'll keep by my stand with the hand thrown rocks. They may not be as deady as their counter parts... but yeah...
I do appologize for missing some of your points VHil...(Not being sarcastic) I'll try again
umm... Boulders being counter productive because The combatants we are trying to represent never hurled large rocks at people.
This to me kinda more than anything falls into the characterization phase. I understand that we are pre-gunpowder era, but it says right on
http://www.belegarth.com/about.php that most groups are based on tolken's middle earth, That means that funny looking Trolls, (with holding nessecary flameing of weaker monster races) could would and should be hurling boulders at people. Nothing would bring me greater Joy than to see legolass crushed by once... but that is a bit off topic....
Scratch anything that has to do mentioning a stagnant evolving game, This game is always evolving and from what I can see it is going for the most part the better.
Something about throwing like a three year old
Yeah... I agree with this... but under 10 feet you have to "Half draw" so you can't really beam someone in the head at 5 feet.
With the boulders we have gotten a bit off topic and have been dancing around the idea of regular rocks. I would really like to see it get back on topic.
Request
Gimmie some ideas on what you would like to see with These boulders. Other than just burn them.
I do plan on (you have to remember, I'm unemployed and poor) making a couple of few of these and attempting some more playtesting (hopefully on a larger scale fields) so I can have some more points to make (I really want to see the tower of boulders)
umm... This is Koom... Signing off....[/b]