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Post by Sol on Mar 15, 2005 22:53:23 GMT
Zipp,
I think you are right in your thinking... because sometimes they will show, for example, 3 meals... or some such. So if there is only one potion, I think there is only one.
Here's a good question - when it sez "select 4 from the following" do you think that the "3 meals" would be 1 selection, or would it count as 3 of 4?
Sol
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Post by Zipp on Mar 16, 2005 2:33:23 GMT
Yeah! That's another question! Fior my part, I assume they don't come as a bundle, simply based on how much you could take with you if they did.
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Post by Relenoir on Mar 16, 2005 3:55:00 GMT
I always count each item individually, so if I can take five items, I may take the quiver with arrows, the potion, 2 meals, and a rope. That makes five! ~Relenoir, who is glad he can count to five.
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Post by Ghost Bear on Mar 16, 2005 12:05:20 GMT
I count the meals as one item, since they're grouped together in the text. I store them in my backpack as seperate backpack items though, as you're supposed to.
-GB
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Post by Relenoir on Mar 16, 2005 13:05:26 GMT
Too bad they don't let you count 2 meals as one item, like in the RPG! In my game, I always let players count 2 potions as one item as far as backpack space is concerned. One small bottle has to be smaller than a whole meal!
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Post by Sol on Mar 16, 2005 17:26:05 GMT
Maybe it is a BIG bottle! Or a bottle-shaped jug! This would explain why LW can't drink it during combat. I mean, it could be a gallon!
It also would better explain the fact that when LW rescues Paido (by giving him a healing potion a little-at-a-time) it literally took ALL NIGHT!
Also you never know - Dever might have intended each individual arrow to count as an item for purposes of "choosing five."
Just some food for thought, hopefully it counts also as a Meal.
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Post by Nathan P. Mahney on Mar 17, 2005 8:20:40 GMT
I count the items as individual things - usually by the time you can take lots of stuff, I'm looking for excuses NOT to take things, just because I don't know what I want to drop. The only items I group as one are arrows and fireseeds.
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Post by Nathan P. Mahney on Mar 17, 2005 8:39:52 GMT
I learned from the master! (Hee... Stealing your bit is my new... bit. Yeah.) Lone Wolf's mother has always tld him that it's bad manners to drink laumspur at any time except after combat. Anyone who does not follow this rule is, of course, not playing the true Lone Wolf, because if I know one thing about him it is this - Lone Wolf listens to his mother. Until he gets the Sommerswerd of course! - Nathan P. Mahney -
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Post by Black Cat on Mar 17, 2005 17:00:12 GMT
I count the meals as one item, since they're grouped together in the text. I store them in my backpack as seperate backpack items though, as you're supposed to. -GB I count meals as only one item in the backpack, even if I have ten of them. In my books, there's always a section of the Character's sheet where you have to put the number of meals that you have, so what's the point of using it if you must already put each meal seperately in the Backpack's Items list?
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Post by Sol on Mar 17, 2005 17:49:03 GMT
I learned from the master! (Hee... Stealing your bit is my new... bit. Yeah.) - Nathan P. Mahney - Ha ha, stealing bits is a time-honoured tradition! I would really want LW to please his Mom - I might have to stop having those on-the-go Laumspur breakfasts and start sitting down for real meals. It is so hard I suppose to make the time... you know, fighting the denziens of darkness and all, but then again they DO say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day!
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Post by Sol on Mar 17, 2005 17:52:46 GMT
Black Cat,
That's a very good point. I never thought of that. Nathan, I got to thinking... WHO WAS LW's Mother? I don't think she is EVER mentioned.
I wonder if Kai forsake family after joining the monastery... or if this would just be LW who does so... or if it is just too boring to say,
"And then you happen upon a cabin in Dage... it's your mom's house and your mom is there.
"Will you: "Stop in and say hi? Turn to 265 "Wave as you go by, but hurry on towards Toran? Turn to 36 "Use the Kai skill of Camouflage to avoid a 10-hour visit? Turn to 97."
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Post by Black Cat on Mar 17, 2005 18:11:57 GMT
I wonder if Kai forsake family after joining the monastery... or if this would just be LW who does so... or if it is just too boring to say, "And then you happen upon a cabin in Dage... it's your mom's house and your mom is there. "Will you: "Stop in and say hi? Turn to 265 "Wave as you go by, but hurry on towards Toran? Turn to 36 "Use the Kai skill of Camouflage to avoid a 10-hour visit? Turn to 97." ;D Ya know, you should submit this joke to the humor contest of TotS!
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Post by Kheti sa-Menik on Mar 17, 2005 19:49:43 GMT
wow this has gone far afield from my original post That's cool though...it's nice to find people so enthusiastic about these books.
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Post by Thomas Wolmer on Mar 17, 2005 20:37:07 GMT
I count meals as only one item in the backpack, even if I have ten of them. In my books, there's always a section of the Character's sheet where you have to put the number of meals that you have, so what's the point of using it if you must already put each meal seperately in the Backpack's Items list? Heh. Few rules are less ambiguous than this one, or?
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Post by Sol on Mar 17, 2005 21:21:44 GMT
Well spotted! Amazing - sometimes the Rules actually do help!
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