robotech_master

Found in my friend tracerj's LJ, but seen other places before hers:

The game:
1. Grab the nearest book to you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

As it happened, I had the beat-up old copy of the D&D Rules Cyclopedia that I borrowed from my brother with a view toward participating in a game bruceb is thinking about running leaning right against my desk within easy reach.

From the "Defender's Siege Options" section from Chapter 9: Mass Combat, talking about how defenders of an ensieged fortress may choose to leave the fortress to make an assault against their attackers:

If the defenders make an assault, they lose all fortification bonuses but may choose the time of attack (day or night) and gain a +10% (not +10) bonus to their BR (rounded up), which represents a degree of surprise. Combat is otherwise run normally, using the War Machine Combat Results Table (not applying siege modifications). Standard modification for normal tactics are used, but the (former) attacker may choose a new tactic and is not bound by the siege tactic currently being used. (the number of defenders is no longer multiplied by 4.)

Make of that what you will.