Re: Mile-throw javelins

From: Mark Galeotti <mark_at_...>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:14:34 -0000

• In whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jane Williams" <janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
  > FWIW, I think I'd let the feat send that javelin *up to* a mile
  > (impossible without magic no matter how good you are), but the
  chance of
  > hitting what you aim at would be down to other skills (javelin
  combat,
  > say), with distance modifiers applying. There's a nice table of
  them for
  > magic on p275. One mile, -20.
  

That's how I work it. Anyway, even if you say the javelin flies for a mile, that doesn't preclude it passing through someone on the way. Though, thinking about that, a minimaxer might suggest it could cut a whole file out of a serried enemy phalanx, but I'd hope that common sense would ensure that a narrator rule that the javelin would have flown for a mile were it not for the numerous Dara Happans beginning to be kebabbed along it...

All the best

Mark