If I might interject.  It seems to me that for a game that is always
defended as purposely and carefully kept simple for the ease of
discipleship, that the very idea of including a whole new skill for SB
in order to reflect a penalty is out of place.  Wouldn't the idea of
penalizing a rogue LR be better served by a simple penalty to their
current weapons abilities and/or defense modifiers?  For simplicity
sake, (and to maybe render this whole discussion mute) why not make it
a flat penalty of -3 To Hit and -2 to Shield of Faith when necessary
no matter what your other skills and characteristics are or what level
your character may have attained?  I personally think the idea of Solo
Battle is just plain unnecessary.  If I, as the AM, want to penalize
my players, I just do it with simple subtractions to the desired
ability.  If you want simple.  I'd say that is it.  Nevermind all the
discussion on the spiritual understanding of SB and how to make it
better.

Sincerely,

Kevin



---GShaunM@... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/20/99 11:43:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> thehold@... writes:
> 
> << 
>  As usual, I'm going to chime in with my well-worn phrase -- this is a
>  discipleship program, one of the purposes of which is to get
Christians
>  thinking in terms of team rather than individual effort.  SB, as
stated,
>  fits right into that.  In the spiritual walk, the Christian on his
own
>  suffers -- the principalities and powers are much, much more
powerful (and
>  more incidious) than he can hope to handle on his own.  Yes, God
enables --
>  but His preferred approach is to use other Christians in support
mode.
>  That's one of the reasons nearly every time you see the word "you"
in the
>  NT, it should be translated "y'all".
>  
>  I have no doubt that you, in your flesh, are quite capable of
taking on most
>  of your neighborhood in hand-to-hand combat.  But SB isn't
hand-to-hand
>  combat -- in fact, there's a category in the weapons list for that.
 It's
>  the effect of cutting yourself off from support, which is always
going to be
>  a negative, no matter how capable you may be. >>
> 
> 
> But it still seems to me that SB is NOT  a reflection of spirtual
abilities.
> If it is then that means there is more to weapons then a physical
> repersentation. If SB is more physical then it should be dropped, If
SB is
> more spirtual the the Weapons skills are affected.
> 
>                         Shaun
> 
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