Re: (TFT) Rewrite of Melee simulator in JavaScript

["$mike cremer" <mike@thecremers.com>]

Yeah, that's a funny one.

Melee first edition spear damage 1 + 2
Melee second and third edition is 1 + 1
Melee fourth and fifth edition is 1 + 2

There are similar differences with chainmail and plate mail.

My exhaustive (some might say anal) investigation of Melee / Wizard
versions is still in progress, but based on what I have seen so far, it is
my belief that Howard started with the first edition text when creating the
fourth edition.

$mike

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Cris Fuhrman <fuhrmanator@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net> wrote:
>
> > As for spears, my copy of Melee and Advanced Melee agree 2-handed spears
> > do 1d+1. This sim has them at 1d+2.
>
>
> Interesting! I have a 5th edition Melee copyright 1981 that says spear is
> 1d+2, but the AM rules says it's 1d+1 (two handed). An older copy of Melee
> 1977 I have (coincidentally identical to
> http://www.mocagh.org/otherbook/fantasytrip-melee.pdf) says 1d+1.
>
> Back in 2007 I had changed the Java version of the simulator to make the
> spear damage 1+2 instead of 1+1 (see comments on
> http://fuhrmanator.webs.com/tftmeleesimulator.htm). So, it's
> controversial.
> But I think the 1+2 is looking like a typo in the 5th Edition (I recall
> other stuff being off in that, too, perhaps because Steve Jackson was
> already gone when it was released?)
>
> Anyway, I suppose I could make spear damage yet another option.
>
> Not going to change anything until Robert Ward's done having fun!
>
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