Re: (TFT) Outdoor Scale - Request for Comments

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This brings to light a favorite debate topic of mine.  What strength are you in real life?
 
Personally, I attribute 18 strength to this guy I saw on one of those super strong man competions pulling a street car and throwing refrigerators for distance.  
 
Ok, an expert athlete, let's say a football linebacker is likely a 16 strength.  I've seen actual greatswords in the tower of london, and I think it would take someone pretty darn big to hold one up and let it fall on someone, not to mention trying to swing it.  I think one of those meaty linemen might be able to do it a few times in a row.  
 
A 14 strength seems more of the lighter super athlete, like those gymnists who can hold the iron cross on the rings.  I bet some of your kung-fu or karaka masters might achieve this level of power which tends to be very strong, but not so bulky to inhibit flexiblity.  
 
A 12 strength seems to be a very athletic, normal sized person.  A marathon runner or a rock climber might need a 13 to keep up such a strenuous hobby.
 
And now we start getting into the world we, as gamers, armchair sports and computer hobbiests are more familiar with.  
 
A strength of 10 to me is really all that is needed to be a large bully.  Most of the our of shape, but large everyday people fall into this category.  These people are inherently strong mostly because they need to be fairly strong to get about.  They may or may not be athletic.  
 
Also in the 10 strength category is the tiny or thin person who works very hard at being atheletic, but really doesn't have any real strength in their muscles.  These guys are always working out, but they always just seem small or thin.  
 
The 8 strength range is where I put most of the population.  If you go about a normal life with a little exersize on the weekends mowing your lawn or pretending to work out infrequently, you're probably an 8 unless you are just naturally bigger than other people.  If you're naturally smaller than other people, you're probably a 7 unless you are particularly stocky.  
 
So, with this scale in mind, I rank myself as about a 9 strength.  I take TaeKwonDo, and I cut my own grass.  I wake up and do pushups and spend a lot of time carrying my little boy.  But, i'm also a computer programmer, so maybe i'm only an 8.  A construction worker would probably be a 9.  Ya, I'm probably just an average Joe, a happy go lucky 8.  
 
And this brings me to why I wrote all of this to begin with.  I think that how far you can hike should be a factor of strength and MA.  I don't know Grouchy from Job, but if he can hike 25 miles in a day with a 60 pound pack, then we just need to know how strong he is, and what race he is.  If he's a dwarf with 9 strength, then we're getting somewhere!
 
Good Fortune,
Rick Walters
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: davidgrouchy@yahoo.com
To: tft@brainiac.com
Sent: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: (TFT) Outdoor Scale - Request for Comments


David Peterson <peterson@vigyan.com> wrote: ITL suggests that a party on foot 
can travel up to 50 km per day by road and about 25 km per day off-road through 
light woods.  Does anyone have any experience that would suggest if this is 
reasonable?  It seems a little high to me.  


David,
   At the age of 17 I did 50 miles in two days with a sixty pound pack.  25 
miles a day or 40 km.  The hike was through Kisatchie National forest.  This 
makes you numbers above light by about 10 miles where the 25 km per day off-road 
only come out to 15 miles a day.

    David Michael Grouchy II


        
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