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The CWT Draft
All right, here's the latest: After all the feedback from Rodger and Jeff Johnson's comments on the formatting, I decided to get things straightened out for the text files and spent the weekend editing them to some semblance of presentability. The previous complete CWT document is now divided into four sub-documents, containing the weapons, armor, shields and the martial arts optional rule respectively.
The text files have been further edited to eliminate tabulator spaces from the tables, so that all table separations are by single spaces and the document displays the same in all text editors. The only places where tabs have not been eliminated is from the weapon notes and similar where indented text is necessary. It doesn't interfere with how the document looks like in a text editor.
I also made the text files printer friendly, which they decidedly were *not* previously. I noticed the mistake I had made, typing the width of the screen instead of considering the need to be able to print it out to A4 size paper (yes, I know you Americans use a different, smaller page size, but there is only *so* far that I will go to accommodate every possible need), so I rectified that lapse and tightened up the lines and tables. I'm just going to do a little bit of final tweaking so that it will be ready to print to A4 size with 2 cm margins without any further adjustments at all, and when that's done, I'll upload the lot to the group's Drafts folder.
The readme and the CWTvsDQ2E comparison files have also gone through the same treatment, so they too are printer-friendly to start with and had the tabs eliminated. This should give us a set of draft documents that only need the communally agreed upon changes and additions to be made to get instantly ready final versions.
If there are any tabs left in the documents (possible in the description and notes sections), those will have been because I somehow managed to overlook them yesterday when I edited the files for printer-friendliness, and my apologies for them. If you notice any such, please inform me that I can fix them. My email address is esko.halttunen@luukku.com for those who don't know.
As I previously said, there were a couple of changes to the documents. The longsword and chain had their weights reduced a bit. Another change was giving the nekode a base chance of 35 (same as cestus) instead of specifying unarmed combat BC as the base, which I had originally intended. No need for additional complexity. That's all for the weapons document now.
I added a note about the use of alternate materials in armor construction to the armor document that specifies how bronze affects the armor (same weight, less protection) and instructions about how special leather armors should perhaps be handled, but that last is more of putting out my reasoning for display than anything else.
In any case, I will upload the lot of these documents in separate zip-files, each section (weapons, armor, shields, martial arts) in its own and the readme and comparison files separately and unzipped. They should be online roughly around 15:00 GMT, which would be around 10:00 am EST. By the end of the day in any case.
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