Re: Odyssey Playtesters

From: jbrowning@hayes.com (Damage Control)

Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <40e62b$92k@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, kdmcgee@aol.com (KDMcGee) writes:
> Chris,
>
>   Thanks for all the advice.  I really like to see vets share their
> knowledge.  Any other playtesters out there want to share some tidbits?
> JB?
>
>   Kevin

Well, I can share a few. I the first playtest, I took a military position.
This test cycle was short, but I managed to easily overrun a neighboring
village and claim a hamlet with my main character, as well as investigating a
few minor markers. In the second playtest cycle, I ran a party of characters,
but was kind of haphazard, and didn't optimize them for any one thing. As a
result, a fairly decent party finally got their clock cleaned by a giant
spider, a grey ooze, and a hellhound. I lost my warlock, priest, and tracker -
my ninja and knight barely survived. My big mistake was to not have enough
front line fighters to keep the critters from engaging my spell casters in
melee - I had planned for the warlock to deal with the ooze with fireballs, but
he got engaged quickly by the hellhound, and died a miserable death.

One trick for the ruthless (and this IS a power game, after all), is to start
with a party, but gove someone 10 glory. He/she can quickly claim a hamlet, and
raise a small army. This army then evicts the neutral garrison, which disbands,
leaving any characters with it in the wilds, The entire party then attacks, and
strips the bodies/prisoners of their goodies. I managed to obtain some Leather
of Fire and a  Gem of Death that way, from a rather mediocre enchanter.

Also, remember that victory is contingent on owning certain guilds and
locations (at least in HQ). This means that you must either have losts of
glory/prestige, or lots of troops. Work toward those ends. Make allies - up to
5 people can cooperate, and I don't really see how one player can win it all,
as there are large geographic areas to cover, and a limit of 20 characters,
armies, and parties per position (garriosn armies not included, of course).

References

Re: Odyssey Playtesters
quixote@elbrus.lcs.mit.edu (Chris Conley)
Thu, 10 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Odyssey Playtesters
quixote@elbrus.lcs.mit.edu (Chris Conley)
Thu, 10 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000