What type of human is your favourite?

[Burb Lulls]

I was thinking that the Rohan Knight's ability 'light speed jump' would count as their 'charge', anything else would just be regular fighting (Albeit on a horse).

Also, ToME is hardly realistic at the best of times, and it doesn't suffer for it. Along with knights on horses you have Deathmolds being served in inns, Trolls and Hobbits fitting into the same armour and some warriors who can mow down a room full of dragons without breaking a sweat.

How many children are we talking about?

[Maylith]

A standing horse is a big, easy to hit target. A mace or heavy sword could easily cripple a horse with one blow to a leg, bringing the rider to the ground.

Since when does a warhorse sit still in battle?

Yes, a horse might be overwhelmed by enough foot soldiers, but I believe that movies and television shows make it look far more probable/easy than it really is. I'm no expert on this, but I suspect that what is far more likely to occur with a mobbed horse is for the rider to be pulled from the saddle and killed on the ground.

But anyway, as Burb Lulls says, you're not going to find exact realism in ToME, anyway.

[Mike the Monk]

Trolls and Hobbits fitting into the same armour

Well a Hobbit will always fit inside a trolls armour

How many children are we talking about?

This post is also in the General Discussion section so I don't want to get spoily

Often I wonder how many Chihuahua dogs it would take to overpower, say, a tiger. If anybody knows email me.

[Falconis]

ROTFLMAO

[archerelf]

Didn't Samwise and Frodo cross the whole orc camp wearing orc armor? Wasn't Bilbo's mithril shirt originally made for a dwarf?

[Falconis]

No, Bilbo's shirt was made for an "Elven prince".
Frodo and Sam didn't actually cross the Orc Camp, (though they did get mistaken for orcs) and their armour didn't fit very well, as is mentioned in the text.

[Atarlost]

A bit silly that. To fit a hobbit its intended owner couldn't have reached his full growth. Mithril is expensive enough that even a king should wait for his son to stop growing before getting him mithril armor.

[archerelf]

I didn't say the armor fit WELL, just that it was on them. I'm gonna guess that ToME armor has little spandex panels so it's kind of a one-size-fits-all... tight on trolls, floppy on hobbits, doesn't really fit anyone right.

[Maylith]

If we were going for dyed-in-the-wool accuracy, then ill-fitting armor would have negative AC for anyone/thing it wasn't precisely made to fit. Do you really want to go there? (Anyway, I doubt the code could support such stringency.)

[archerelf]

So we'll just say that there is a secrect automatizer that destroys anything that won't fit the current character. I guess characters must be smart enough to sort out the artifacts, and tuck and pull a few stitches/rivets/loops here and there to make them fit.

BTW... I like the idea of finding a Troll's Full Plate Armor of Immunity {25, +11} (+80%), and being unable to use it. Wouldn't the RNG have a field day with that!

[Atarlost]

Nah, you'd just have to find a trap of growing, get yourself large enough to wear it, and then use a trap of shrinking to get yourself down to a more normal size again while wearing it.

[Burb Lulls]

So we'll just say that there is a secrect automatizer that destroys anything that won't fit the current character.

Yes, the game only lets you see equipment that fits your character, when in truth you're wading waist deep in all different sizes and types of armours.

[Nerdanel]

A bit silly that. To fit a hobbit its intended owner couldn't have reached his full growth. Mithril is expensive enough that even a king should wait for his son to stop growing before getting him mithril armor.

Well, that's filthy rich people for you... Back in the day when Moria was operational, the price of mithril would have been less, although still high. At the time of the story new mithril hadn't been produced for many centuries and the price had really had time to creep up.

If you want a modern comparison, think about how the price of plastic would behave a long time after the Peak Oil if there were no alternate ways of production.