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The rules that Gygax and
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Arneson displayed some of his 1:1200 sailing ship models, and in a subsequent discussion of my attempt he mentioned that his group in Minneapolis-St. Paul were currently developing just such a set of rules. Thereafter began a long correspondence wherein
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The protractor is also called into use to determine which cannons can fire on an enemy ship. Cannons can aim at the masts or at the hull, and the chance of hitting is 5 in 6 at short range (4") and 1 in 6 at long range (16"). The amount of damage from a hit is determined by the weight of the
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also included a detachable sheet to detail the qualities of ships and track their state through the game. This served as a precedent for later character sheets in role-playing games pioneered by
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has been out of print for decades, it is still played and studied, due to the high profiles of the game's creators. Mike Carr himself has run the game for groups at gaming conventions in 2013 and 2014, including
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we exchanged rules and ideas while Mike Carr eventually joined us in order to devise much of the optional rules and arrange the mass of material Dave and I had put together.
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which focused on their mutual interest in naval battles. By 1971, Arneson and Gygax had produced a draft version of the game. The game was published in 1971, as part of
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