Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucbvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ucbvax!faustus From: faustus@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Christopher) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Thieves Backstab Message-ID: <1666@ucbvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 14:12:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.1666 Posted: Sun Aug 19 14:12:05 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Aug-84 01:59:39 EDT References: <386@uwvax.ARPA> Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 14 If a thief is to get a bonus for backstabbing with a thrown weapon, he should be very good with the thrown weapon. If he is standing in back of someone, it is not difficult to aim where the dagger is going to go in, and because he is a thief, he knows where best to put it. But regardless of whether he knows where to place an arrow, can he actually hit that particular point? He would have to be quite a marksman to be able to do this consistently. I think because of this, backstab bonus should be restricted to those weapons that can actually be aimed easily, i.e. handheld weapons (and maybe high-powered rifles with telescopic sights). Wayne