How fast can the regular person swim?

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Akashic Soldier
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How fast can the regular person swim?

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Straight up question, is there a formula?

I have the swimming skill, how fast can I swim?
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Re: How fast can the regular person swim?

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Akashic Soldier wrote:Straight up question, is there a formula?

I have the swimming skill, how fast can I swim?


I thought it was in the swimming skill description: "A character can swim a distance equal to 3x his P.S. in yards/meters per melee. This pace can be maintained for a total of minutes equal to his P.E./endurance."
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Re: How fast can the regular person swim?

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Dreamstreamer wrote:
Akashic Soldier wrote:Straight up question, is there a formula?

I have the swimming skill, how fast can I swim?


I thought it was in the swimming skill description: "A character can swim a distance equal to 3x his P.S. in yards/meters per melee. This pace can be maintained for a total of minutes equal to his P.E./endurance."


Epic fail.

Thank you. I looked in SCUBA and everywhere else. I feel stupid.
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Re: How fast can the regular person swim?

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For the regular Swimming skill, speed is consistently listed as P.S. x 3 yards/meters per melee, and can be maintained for P.E. x 1 minutes (newer books) or P.E. x 1 melees (older books).

For Advanced Swimming/SCUBA, speed is variously given as P.S. x 2, P.S. x 4, and P.S. x 10 yards per melee, for a maximum duration variously given as P.E. x 1 minutes, P.E. x 4 minutes, and P.E. x 4 melees. Oddly enough, in some older books, SCUBA also gives a bonus to Spd. when in water.
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