[MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking

[Christopher Allen]

Travis S. Casey wrote:
> To me, it seems ridiculous -- no real squirrel or rat is likely to
> inflict significant harm on a normal, healthy, awake & aware adult
> human even *without* armor and weapons.

This is true for game purposes, but I've had an incident with a coon who ate a
hole through our roof into my closet, and another incident with pesky opossums
that were ripping holes in PVC pipes under my house to get to water. Both were
quite frightening, in some ways the opossum's even more so as I didn't think
they would fight back so hard. Neither incident did I get harmed, but in both I
had to fight quite hard to keep from being hurt, and both creatures have earned
my respect as fighters.

So maybe this says that for beginning fighters that incidents with small
creatures can be quite different when put into context of an environment. A coon
in my closet and opossums under my floor were both constrained places, so enough
realistic rats in a tight or constrained sewer would be an interesting challenge
for a new player.

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