Re: Odyssey advice?

From: Chris Conley <quixote>

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

kythyn@aol.com (Kythyn) wrote:
>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.

Did you ever return to the same den after it restocked?  I expect that
the majority of the starting dens will be pretty easy, but after the
third or fourth restock you ought to be able to find a pretty good
challenge.  (Or more; my 8-character HQL party was simply obliterated by
one den, which went from a single Giant Spider to a bunch of Drakes,
Catoblepas and other nasties...)

Setting up a "loop" of three or four dens is probably the most efficient
way to build characters.  Make sure you do some scouting, though, just
in case you encounter a massive power increase like I did.

>In fact, on the last turn of the playtest I split my group and had each
>character attack a den blind (unscouted).  All were successful and
>unwounded, even my centaur scout.  The worse news is that it was rumored
>that other playtesters thought that the dens were TOO tough and would be
>toned down for the commercial game.

Many of the starting dens can easily be handled by one or two fighters
(mages are virtually useless without "protection", as the can't cast
spells once engaged).  Not all of them, though - one of the dens that
showed up on my starting sheet contained dragons!  (It was across the
river, so I didn't get to send my suicide squad over that way...)

- Chris

References

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

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