Re: [DL] Pace rules - speedy critters

[TobyAkers@aol.com]

Well, keep in mind that 104 kph is extremely fast, even for a cheetah.  Instead, a cheetah would have a more standard pace, then a special ability that allowed it extreme bursts of speed for a short time.  A cheetah cannot keep up it's full speed for very long at all.  Perhaps when a cheetah picks up the pace it simply adds 15 to it's pace for each point of wind spent...

In a message dated 9/18/02 2:53:05 AM US Mountain Standard Time, jmb@dwarven.co.uk writes:


> Hi,
>
>         I've not seen this covered in any of the books i'm currenly borrowing,
> or in the acc. rules on sonic.net, but please point me in the right
> direction if i'm covering old ground.
>
>         I'm looking at pace, as a concept here.  It works nicely for humans
> and humanoids, but i see problems for animals.  For instance, if you were
> stating a cheetah for some reason (i pick this as an extreme example), the
> following would apply.
>
> Kilometers per hour: 104
> Yards/sec: 32
> Div. Factor for walking speed (as defined in rules): 2
> Seconds in a round, iirc: 10
> Walking pace: 160
>
> That would have the cheetah walking at 52mph...  I know this is silly,
> but are there hard and fast rules anywhere for how to resolve this?
>
> I mean, you could just assign two paces, or a base pace and running
> multiplier, i suppose...
>
> cheers,
>
> John