Re: AG poison

From: "T. Woods" <twoods@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>

Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 16:21:33 +0000

On Sun, 22 Jan 1995 doug37@delphi.com wrote:

>
>    I would like to see what everyone thinks of the poison action. There is
> a certain mid level character in Barstow that took a dislike to a low
> level group leader. The facts aren't all in but it looks like the mid
> level adventurer poisoned the other.
>
>    Neither of these warriors are mine. Personally I dislike the poison
> option. I would prefer to see it removes completely. What are your
> opinions ?

I'd like to see the poison action removed too.  I can see where
some people would like to keep it in the game.  It does add some realism
to the game and poisoning is something an evil character would definately
do.  But this IS a recreational game.  It takes a long time to raise
stats and alot of real money.  Several turns worth of ep/stat raises can
be wiped out with one poisoning attempt.  This can really frustrate a
player (I know I'm frustrated just raising stats with ep earned).
Something like this could cause a person to stop playing the game.  I'd
say that if the poison action is kept in the game it should be modified
somehow to make it harder (less likely to succeed) or to have the chance
of success modified by things like victims cunning (chance to detect
poison) or stamina (to recover from poison without ill affects).  Thus
the higher a characters stats in either of the 2 the less likely
poisoning would be.  As far I remember there is no race that has high
multiples in both stamina and cunning, so it's not particularly unfair to
any race.
      Also I think the idea that if an assassin fails in it's
attempt at poisoning someone that the person who hired the assassin is
rewarded is idiotic.  When you take into account that the person hwo
hired the assassin is normally give a scroll (which due to recent
scarcity and demand have risen drastically in sale price) then a
character could try to poison another character on the HOPES that it
fails and then is given a decent scroll.  I think this practice should stop!

>    Rand al'Thor (good books aren't they <g>)
>
  	Ya they are (I could only find Lord of Chaos in hardbound, but coughed
up the money anyway <arrrrgh>). But be original in character names. Makes
the game more interesting.

Later,
           Todd

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