Chainmail

It's also the name WotC will be releasing their miniture war game under.

Sebastian


>From: George LaValle <flamebringer@???????.com>
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>Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] S&F
>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 18:39:28 -0000
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>>dunno....um..not to sound TOO ignorant....I've heard of it....but..what's
>>chainmail???
>>
>>(no..not the armour, I know that one...)
>>
>>and I'd rather go through some of it now...if not all of it....quite
>>frankly
>>we might come up with something better than they do...<smile> then
>>agian..maybe not...who knows..??  or perhaps we have a differnt view that
>>oculd be useful to "them" when "they do it themselves...
>>
>>(whoever "they" are....)
>
>Okay, if I remember my history correctly, Chainmail was a wargame where
>fantasy hordes hack at each other; it formed the basis for the D&D combat
>system and such, though D&D symplified it a bit for individual characters.
>
>I may be way off base, but that's what I think it is.
>
>~George Lavalle
>
>"Caelum videre iussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus."
>
>He bid them look at the sky and lift their faces to the stars.
>
>~Ovid.
>
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