Off To War... Recriutment/Discussion

it is meant to denote that ther is sme form of link that will come to complete itself when Claude gets the special mount ability, secondly I don't believe that they don't use the name of horses in training they will use simple vocal cues and physical ones to make the horse do what is wanted. This probably the first name that this horse has.

Horses are very intelligent, much more so than dogs.

I don't believe that they don't use the name of horses in training they will use simple vocal cues and physical ones to make the horse do what is wanted. This probably the first name that this horse has.

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It's not about what you believe, have you actually handled or ridden a horse? Do some research, they recognize their names.

If you take a 6 year old German shepherd dog named Max, and start calling him Bart, it will take a long time for the dog to even acknowledge that the "bart" sound refers to it. And even later, if it's old master or another familiar voice calls "MAX!" it will still raise it's ears and look about.

Horses are quite intelligent, and while i haven't trained one, i have ridden horses and know people who breed them.

hey im from Texas and i know a thing or two about horses... there are 3 in pasture behind me house lol. horses can be trained and generalyl are to a name. other vocal cues seem to be better in most cases and physical cues the strongest... ie a salt lick will get the horse moving to you faster then calling their names.

so renaming a military horse who was taught without using a name as a cue would be fine.... but however if it does know its name it could be difficult lol

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Myth and Legend said:

It's not about what you believe, have you actually handled or ridden a horse? Do some research, they recognize their names.

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My comment about horse training was not meant to make you look foolish or stupid all it was meant to do was state what i know about horse training, this is not meant to make you feel foolish or stupid either it is merely me responding.

I use believe as a way of saying "what I know about this is",this is not meant to offend it is just the vocabulary I choose to use. Now if this was the first time you encountered my writing than I would be much less likely to be as insulted because I would have chalked it up to a mistake but you are in another game with me. That means that you must have understood and choose your words with that understanding.

I am glad that you feel so strongly about this, I would ask you in the future to think about what you say and take emotions out of this because it really doesn't matter what or how I go about getting my special mount as long as HM has nothing to say about it.
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Sphyh said:

horses can be trained and generalyl are to a name. other vocal cues seem to be better in most cases and physical cues the strongest... ie a salt lick will get the horse moving to you faster then calling their names.

so renaming a military horse who was taught without using a name as a cue would be fine.... but however if it does know its name it could be difficult lol

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This was the point I was trying to make, there are far better ways to train a horse than to work with it's name. I am quite sure that it could learn it's name and react to it. I was also working on a mystical approach because the name that he gave the horse was the name that his father told him in his dream. This denotes that they are intrinsically tied and therefore the name is merely symbolic of this attachment.

First @ ML very funny vid

And about horse I know nothing about training but I was going to have Vance say something like "How did you know his name?" remember this is D&D and anything is possible.

Ok as you may have seen I posted Aidan's little adventure in the Off to War IC figured it was a good place as he is back in camp and we could keep the story out of BaHM bad enough splitting it two ways. So you can keep up if you like or you may wait till Aidan tells you what happens.

HM

Oh come on FM you know this is me arguing, i meant no offense! But see? I was right about the names... Erm, sort of

Writing to let you all know I am working on combat inbetween other works. Just very complex due to number of combants and most I control.

Will let you know now I am invoking the DM privilege to "smudge" rolls or not roll and have the effect I wish to play out. This will not be a big factor verses PCs (except for the strength check Onesinus will autofail sorry, ) and will never get you killed. Just various fluff reasons you saw it happen when Kase failed his stay on horse check. It will be mostly cosmetic as the arrow thumping into him and sending him flying of his horse was a better post than "An arrow hits Kase in his shoulder and he roars in pain."

I have the ultimiate DM screen here and I intend to use it.

Update and map tonight and I hope everyone can get one last post in before XP (I have a special reward to everyone for me slowing down the game. Trust me. )

HM

BaHM is updated and it was not fun.

Ready for everyone to post round two but there will be no update till tomorrow night after XP.

I need to work on that now, LOL

HM

Experience April 1st - April 15th


Ok here's what I did. I took and gave everyone 20% of the experience they needed to get to their next level (except for Theroc who got 10%) and added it to your post reward. Seems FM needed the most so he got the most, but it evened everyone out a little that is third lvl.

And it looks like DW may lvl up the end of the month, only needs 215 points. I am off to upgrade BaHM and then bed.

@ ML before I attack will let you know the big target will be getting the most attention from the guys in the forest. You posted that you were going to try and get out of range (which you(ML) believe to be max 110') but the listed range is only a range increment. A longbow (range 100') has a max range of 1000' or 333 + yards. So if you wish to change Lora's actions because you said you based them on info she knew but turned out that it was wrong let me know here and I will see what we should do. I'm not sure what is going to happen to Lora I'm on the way to Invisible Castle to find out.

HM

Trying out my new mapper soon I hope to have a map of the Five Kingdoms.

Not to scale or anything just a way to get your bearings.

HM