Re: Odyssey advice?

From: gbenage@aol.com (G Benage)

Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Kythyn,

>Your setup sounds like what I put together for the playtest.  The good
>news is I never got hurt beyond 1%.  The bad news is that we never found
a
>den that was a challenge out of the ten or so we hit in twelve turns  in
>the Wilds. The worst we found was a naga that was set up similar to one
of
>my characters.

That *is* surprising!  From other reports I've heard, I would have thought
there would be a wider range of dens, even early on.  Oh well, I guess
there's worse problems to have.

>Finally, it is likely that my characters will catch up to yours quickly
>because of the way the calculations work.  Most things are based on
square
>roots and it takes fewer points initially to reach the key levels like
>1600, 2500 and 3600 than it does to reach 4900, 6400, etc. Also,
Empowered
>Hero is a warlock status spell of easy level.

It is certainly true that the early "key levels" are easier to get to, and
that your characters have a good chance of catching up with mine on that
basis.  However, I would think it depends largely on how the experience
awards are structured, in addition to the way character statistics are
structured.  That is, the proportionally greater experience point awards
for taking out the tougher dens (assuming I can find some) might allow me
to be competitive with your characters as far as advancement.  Did you get
any feel for this when you tackled some of the tougher dens in the
playtest?

The Empowered Hero status was a bit inefficient at 2500 points.  Problem
is, I don't have a warlock, so I bit the bullet and bought the status
anyway.  I'll probably find that these points could have been better spent
elsewhere.

Thanks for the help,
Greg

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Re: Odyssey advice?
kythyn@aol.com (Kythyn)
Fri, 01 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000