Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 4 Mar 2005 to 5 Mar 2005 (#2005-52) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 06/03/2005, 19:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 2 messages totalling 77 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. D&D Units (2) ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.mystaranet.jamm.com/vaults/default.aspx To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 08:03:54 -0000 From: Jon Cole Subject: Re: D&D Units But everyone should be able to work out multiples of 5280 for distances, and shop in base 12 seriously though I sem to remember that UK published games systems in the 80's and 90's tended to use metric scales, while US ones were never translated from one to the other, so reffing ment you hand to undrstand both - besides who's ever heard of a 3.3 x 3.3 m corridor? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilles Leblanc" To: Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [MYSTARA] D&D Units > Personnaly I think that the metric system makes a lot more sense. > Everything is a multiple of 10 instead of a variable multiple ( ie. > going from inches to feet to yards, etc. ). > > Also I find it more intuitive to have water freeze at 0 and boil at > 100 in celcius degrees but maybe that's just my metric upbringing. > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.mystaranet.jamm.com/vaults/default.aspx > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:00:07 +0100 From: la Volpe Subject: Re: D&D Units --- Gilles Leblanc wrote: > Personnaly I think that the metric system makes a > lot more sense. > Everything is a multiple of 10 instead of a variable > multiple ( ie. > going from inches to feet to yards, etc. ). > > Also I find it more intuitive to have water freeze > at 0 and boil at > 100 in celcius degrees but maybe that's just my > metric upbringing. The worst thing in Physics is that we have a beautiful metric system and then anyone uses eV, Gauss system, and so on...I hate that... Murphy's Law of Physics: if a measure can be expressed in the worst possible form, it will be; as an example, a measure of speed will always appear in the form of "furlong/week"... Iulius Sergius Scaevola Captain of the XXth Cohort Port Lucinius, Thyatis ___________________________________ Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto più divertente: Audibles, Avatar, Webcam, Giochi, Rubrica… Scaricalo ora! http://it.messenger.yahoo.it ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 4 Mar 2005 to 5 Mar 2005 (#2005-52) *************************************************************