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Re: How many studs in an inch? How many posts in a thread?
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lugnet.gaming
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Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:31:56 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
> 2) The fact that none of us brought decent rulers, and we're cheap
Hmm, I was a theatre techie in high school and college, so I still carry a small
tape measure everywhere I go. That makes perfect sense for the initiation of
the brick-stick convention. Necessity, being the mother of invention and all
(or was that Frank Zappa?).
> Anyways, if memory serves we *did* in fact experiment with 3-stud
> rulers, and found that it made close quarters seem just too darn
> close, and 6 studs was right out (as was 5, for reasons of ease).
> No Holy Hand Grenade jokes here, just some background on how 4 studs
> got settled upon in the early course of a game, from one guy's
> recollections.
Okay, simple dissatisfaction with the official scale is something that I can
completely understand. Some of the people in my college gaming group were fond
of referring to the rule books as "suggestions" because they liked to tweak the
system here and there to suit their personal tastes.
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