- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Solovay"
<asolovay_at_r...> wrote:
> Stephen Tempest <e-g_at_s...> wrote:
> > Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_y...> writes:
> >
> >> I'd suggest an expanded and corrected version, having
> >> looked at it in more detail. It seems to be based on
> >> the travel times of a couch potato, not a fit
> >> pseudo-medieval/Dark Age type.
> >
> > You're forgetting that Gloranthan miles/kilometres are longer
than the
> > real world equivalents...
>
> Yes, but Gloranthan years are shorter, so it balances. ;-)
Indeed it does--move everything into leagues, and define one league
as the standard distance one walks in an hour, with an hour being
defined as 1/24th of a Gloranthan day. Who knows exactly how far a
league is in terrestrial measurement, but it is clearly defined in
Gloranthan terms.
--Bryan