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Originally Posted by Steve Jackson
So shooting from the hip here, what if a staff strike is an automatically succeeding magic blow that's incompatible with any other use of the staff, whatever its shape, at the same time? It would be learned with the Staff spell.
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That’s how I always played it. The other proposals would let a ST11 Wizard outclass a ST11 fighter in melee combat in many, if not most combat situations. From a game balance perspective, I think that’s undesirable.
I had a Codex years ago, but couldn’t find it now if my life depended on it. It was originally printed by the author on a very low quality (even for 1981) dot matrix printer that couldn’t print descenders for lower case letters. So a lowercase “g” looks sorta like the numeral “9”.
Metagaming didn’t re-typeset it and produced it in that format. I found it distracting to try to read and didn’t use it much once I had my own PC with a decent printer.