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<blockquote data-quote="BMF" data-source="post: 121585" data-attributes="member: 3149">When I was in high school, back in the days of 1e, one of my fellow gamers was on the school track team. In fact he was about the fastest guy they had. He wasn't breaking records or anything but he won a lot of races and he was a hell of a lot faster than I was. Anyway, we did some timed sprints on the track to test out the movement rules. We found that even he, at 17 years old, in top physical condition and wearing only his gym clothes couldn't run nearly as fast as a typical character could with 50 pounds of gear on his back. &nbsp;Also, Spider mentioned the noise people make when walking through tunnels. To that I would add mention of the absolute racket that people make when they walk through the woods. If they are just walking it isn't too bad, but if they start talking you can hear them a long, long way off. And noises like the chopping of wood can be heard even further than that. &nbsp;Much of our modern lifestyle causes us to forget just how quite the wilderness is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BMF, post: 121585, member: 3149"] When I was in high school, back in the days of 1e, one of my fellow gamers was on the school track team. In fact he was about the fastest guy they had. He wasn't breaking records or anything but he won a lot of races and he was a hell of a lot faster than I was. Anyway, we did some timed sprints on the track to test out the movement rules. We found that even he, at 17 years old, in top physical condition and wearing only his gym clothes couldn't run nearly as fast as a typical character could with 50 pounds of gear on his back. Also, Spider mentioned the noise people make when walking through tunnels. To that I would add mention of the absolute racket that people make when they walk through the woods. If they are just walking it isn't too bad, but if they start talking you can hear them a long, long way off. And noises like the chopping of wood can be heard even further than that. Much of our modern lifestyle causes us to forget just how quite the wilderness is. [/QUOTE]

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