Re: Re: Digest Number 320

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:52:09 +1300


At 17:19 20/10/00 +0000, you wrote:

>In HW what would seem an appropriate penalty to understand those
>blokes with the thick accent and odd coloquialisms? Character's
>aren't assigned a "speak own language" score, so you can't simply
>apply a penalty and call it a normal contest. (This is assuming that
>the narrator has a reason to play up the language barrier, rather
>than glossing over it).

6 is the basic score. -1 to -5 for various degrees of unintelligibility seem appropriate.

--Peter Metcalfe

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