Re: AG: New Player Character Advise

From: lepag001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Garrett R Le-Page)

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 02:05:27 +0000

Ditto on the high str/dex concept.  I have played minotaurs, elves,
lizardmen and humans in my six months with the game and enjoy them all.
You might wish to consider whether you wish to be an adventurer soon or
just a guild fighter.  With an adventurer, stamina is more important in
the short run.  In the guild you mainly go 1-1 and a high str/dex can
mean victory before your opponent even swings at you.  I have a three
turn human that started with a 1 stam...i.e. one hit took her out.
However, she has 20/21 str/dex and last turn went 8/8 fights without ever
being attacked.  If you are never attacked, you cannot lose ;)

Weapons:  A flail is good for high str/dex folks because it gets around a
lot of parries, et (weapon of above ind.).
   If you start with a good dex, any long range weapon will get you a lot
of wins early.  Once you hit an opponent for decent damage they slow
down.  I have heard that at higher power levels, opponents get in close
too often though.
   Some individuals decide to wear heavy armor early with a spiked
gauntlet.  This is usually good for early wins as well.
    A lot of individuals go with a shield as their weapon early.  This
gets them a lot of skill points, but not a lot of wins (usually).  I had
a mino with a large shield that won her third turn (and then died in the
grotto).  Although many go with bucklers, I have never had much success
with them.  Too many level one weapons went through my 16 str level two
bckler parries.
   In short, you can win with any weapon if you think about the str/dex
and battle orders carefully.

References

To Hazard a question....
s001rhn@discover.wright.edu (Rajesh Nanda)
Mon, 26 Sep 1994 21:00:26 +0000
Re: To Hazard a question....
DTonizzo@hr.house.gov (David Tonizzo)
Tue, 27 Sep 1994 12:05:01 +0000
Re: To Hazard a question....
s001rhn@discover.wright.edu (Rajesh Nanda)
Tue, 27 Sep 1994 15:01:54 +0000
Re: AG: New Player Character Advise
dsaville@unm.edu (David G. Saville)
Wed, 28 Sep 1994 07:20:35 +0000