buck@sct60a.sunyct.edu (Jesse R. Buckley, Jr.) (01/08/91)
On Jan 4, 2:49, Tom Rombouts wrote: } Subject: Re: Software Obesity (was Re: Jargon file v2.1.5) } In article <3276@unisoft.UUCP> greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes: } >-- } >On the 'Net: Why are more and more fourth-level wizard(-wannabe)s trying to } >invoke ninth-level magic, instead of taking the time to climb the other } >(quite essential) thirteen levels so they can do this properly? } } If they are at the fourth-level, and seek the ninth-level, doesn't that } leave five, and not thirteen, other levels for them to climb? :-) } } Sorry to be picky, but after all, this _is_ the 'Net, you know.... } } } Tom Rombouts Torrance Techie tomr@ashtate.A-T.com V:(213)538-7108 } Filler: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX } XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX } XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX( that should be enough....)XXX }-- End of excerpt from Tom Rombouts I belive that Grey Wolf refering to Dungeons & Dragons(tm). Where 4th level wizards can only use 2nd level magic, to use 9th level magic (The highest) you need to be 18th Level or Arch-Mage. I think 13 should have been 14. -- -Buck (buck@sct60a.sunyct.edu) "So this is a leap second?" -- Me at 6:59:60 pm on Mon Dec 31, 1990