>Aside, we know now you read QHCF at least enough to come here
>and drop the proverbial bitch slap.

I don't always, but sometimes I do.

And, hey, I try to correct your misconceptions here and there to keep everyone more on an even keel of understanding how the game works or has worked.

>I will say this. At one point, you did change striking
>slightly, because I remember a dwarf warrior (played by SnS
>Esq, if I remember correctly) blocking me and Jaguab from
>fleeing after like 6 or 7 combat rounds. I specifically
>remember Skiltore (Jaguab) saying that the monk that taught
>that must have been crazy, and then his next char was a gnome
>STSF char

Well, keep in mind that it's always had a chance to learn something each round; if you were a bit lucky with even a medium mental stats character you could be cutting people off at the third or fourth round. Just like you tend to remember the time deathblow went off four times in a round and put you straight to dead, you tend to remember the times Striking surprises you, too.

But, yeah, it's seen a fair amount of tinkering over time. A lot of it didn't work right at all for the first year or two it was in, and once that was corrected it took some adjusting to where it felt like it was good enough, but not too good.