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Rabid airborne rodent

2008-07-14T20:15:18Z

Sentinel:

{{fight
|pronoun=
|name=rabid airborne rodent
|desc=Out of the darkened sky a streak of foaming, chittering, bucktoothed ball of furred fury slams into you. In the frenzy of the first seconds, you only have brief impressions that flash through your mind: Rabid. Airborne. Rodent. What else is there to say, really?
|image=Rabid-rodent.jpg
|crit=unknown
|miss1=*Your opponent attacks ... The rodent dive-bombs you at a terrific speed, but you dodge at the last second. It's halfway to Pottsylvania before it can turn around and come back to continue the fight.
|miss2=*Your opponent attacks ... Before the critter can attack, and Canadian mountie comes riding by and takes a couple of pot shots at the rabid varmint it with a shotgun, distracting it. You tip your hat to the mountie: he surely did right by you.
|miss3=*Your opponent attacks ... The rodent whistles loudly. There's a small burst of flame below you and then a moose strapped to a rocket comes whizzing by. You hear the moose utter "Oh nooooo!" in a dorky voice as it misses you by a matter of feet and shoots off into the distance.
|fum=unknown
|fumpro=It
|chips=0
|xp=105
|loc1=Flying above Twilight
|item1=Ultimate Aviator Goggles
|image1=Ultimate-goggles.gif}}

==References==
The monster and its messages are all a big reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_the_Flying_Squirrel Rocket J. Squirrel] from the 60's cartoon show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_and_bullwinkle Rocky and Bullwinkle].

==Notes==
This adventure is semi-rare to very rare in frequency.

[[Category:Color]]

Rabid airborne rodent

2008-07-14T20:14:56Z

Sentinel:

{{fight
|pronoun=
|name=rabid airborne rodent
|desc=Out of the darkened sky a streak of foaming, chittering, bucktoothed ball of furred fury slams into you. In the frenzy of the first seconds, you only have brief impressions that flash through your mind: Rabid. Airborne. Rodent. What else is there to say, really?
|image=Rabid-rodent.jpg
|hit=*Your opponent attacks ... The rodent claws you furiously with all of its feet. As if that's not badenov, it bites you a couple of times, too. It hits you for {{element|physical|?-17-?}} damage.
|crit=unknown
|miss1=*Your opponent attacks ... The rodent dive-bombs you at a terrific speed, but you dodge at the last second. It's halfway to Pottsylvania before it can turn around and come back to continue the fight.
|miss2=*Your opponent attacks ... Before the critter can attack, and Canadian mountie comes riding by and takes a couple of pot shots at the rabid varmint it with a shotgun, distracting it. You tip your hat to the mountie: he surely did right by you.
|miss3=*Your opponent attacks ... The rodent whistles loudly. There's a small burst of flame below you and then a moose strapped to a rocket comes whizzing by. You hear the moose utter "Oh nooooo!" in a dorky voice as it misses you by a matter of feet and shoots off into the distance.
|fum=unknown
|fumpro=It
|chips=0
|xp=105
|loc1=Flying above Twilight
|item1=Ultimate Aviator Goggles
|image1=Ultimate-goggles.gif}}

==References==
The monster and its messages are all a big reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_the_Flying_Squirrel Rocket J. Squirrel] from the 60's cartoon show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_and_bullwinkle Rocky and Bullwinkle].

==Notes==
This adventure is semi-rare to very rare in frequency.

[[Category:Color]]

Talk:Rabid airborne rodent

2008-06-14T19:41:00Z

Sentinel:

A few things. First, for this page, and many other template pages I've seen, the combat messages read like this: "Your opponent attacks ... Your opponent has a critical hit! {{{fumpro}}} hits for {{{crit}}} damage." {{{fumpro}}} and {{{crit}}} look odd and don't necessarily scream out their intended meanings. I mean, you get it through context, but it looks fugly. Is this the intended result for variables like character name and damage? "Isn't there a better way?", asked the exasperated infomercial actress with the malfunctioning colander.

Second, how can an encounter be "semi-rare to very rare in frequency"? I would think that rarity - the percentage chance of a player encountering said content - would be some hard-coded constant. Like, 0.0001% or something. We may not know the exact number, but how could it be less rare for one person than it is for another? Should we simply change that part (the notes section) to "This is an ultra-rare adventure. Precise numbers regarding the chance of encountering it are currently unknown" or some such thing?

Jus' wonderin'. [[User:Alhazred|Alhazred]] 14:18, 10 April 2008 (MST)

Well, people are supposed to fill those variables in. However, the combat pages are and always have been lacking in templating. I'm the one who made the template as complex as it is now, so I may've just made it worse, but it's alot easier to use for someone who's used to working with templates. I've been fairly inactive on adding stuff to the wiki since the initial transfer and my template creating, but I plan to make more contributions eventually, when I'm not as busy/lazy. When that happens, those things'll be correctly substituted with the right values. - Satan

: Ah. So those are just placeholders for when some enterprising players decide to "spade" the values out through exhaustive testing and so forth? When nothing is entered, then, the template just puts in the id or name or whatever of that portion of the template? I think I get it. I'll play around with the templates sometime soon and see if I can "get it" a bit more. Thanks for answering so many of my questions recently. [[User:Alhazred|Alhazred]] 15:22, 10 April 2008 (MST)

I had the misfortune to get caught as a level 3 Psion, stats 23/20/11. Here's a hit message:
"Your opponent attacks ... The rodent claws you furiously with all of its feet. As if that's not badenov, it bites you a couple of times, too. It hits you for 17 damage." - Sentinel

Talk:Rabid airborne rodent

2008-06-14T05:03:23Z

Sentinel:

A few things. First, for this page, and many other template pages I've seen, the combat messages read like this: "Your opponent attacks ... Your opponent has a critical hit! {{{fumpro}}} hits for {{{crit}}} damage." {{{fumpro}}} and {{{crit}}} look odd and don't necessarily scream out their intended meanings. I mean, you get it through context, but it looks fugly. Is this the intended result for variables like character name and damage? "Isn't there a better way?", asked the exasperated infomercial actress with the malfunctioning colander.

Second, how can an encounter be "semi-rare to very rare in frequency"? I would think that rarity - the percentage chance of a player encountering said content - would be some hard-coded constant. Like, 0.0001% or something. We may not know the exact number, but how could it be less rare for one person than it is for another? Should we simply change that part (the notes section) to "This is an ultra-rare adventure. Precise numbers regarding the chance of encountering it are currently unknown" or some such thing?

Jus' wonderin'. [[User:Alhazred|Alhazred]] 14:18, 10 April 2008 (MST)

Well, people are supposed to fill those variables in. However, the combat pages are and always have been lacking in templating. I'm the one who made the template as complex as it is now, so I may've just made it worse, but it's alot easier to use for someone who's used to working with templates. I've been fairly inactive on adding stuff to the wiki since the initial transfer and my template creating, but I plan to make more contributions eventually, when I'm not as busy/lazy. When that happens, those things'll be correctly substituted with the right values. - Satan

: Ah. So those are just placeholders for when some enterprising players decide to "spade" the values out through exhaustive testing and so forth? When nothing is entered, then, the template just puts in the id or name or whatever of that portion of the template? I think I get it. I'll play around with the templates sometime soon and see if I can "get it" a bit more. Thanks for answering so many of my questions recently. [[User:Alhazred|Alhazred]] 15:22, 10 April 2008 (MST)

I had the misfortune to get caught as a level 3. Here's a hit message:
"Your opponent attacks ... The rodent claws you furiously with all of its feet. As if that's not badenov, it bites you a couple of times, too. It hits you for 17 damage." - Sentinel