Re: Legends: New Module - DD

From: dani@telerama.lm.com

Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 16:06:43 +0000

Darrell Neely <darrelln@zikzak>:
>...some players believe it will a bonus in terms of increased competition
>due to larger membership and also greater chance of character matching for
>influencing. The down side seems to be the loss of the variety and choice.

The victory conditions are, to my mind, much better considered.  You build
up your power as usual, and then use your resources to field the best
character or party or armies you can:  Actual duels are fought to select
the top champion or the top religion or whatever, and you and yours can
go for a victory through duelling or through conquest or both.  Among
things, this adds an element that's been sorely missed in the game so far,
which is an opportunity to test your best characters directly against
those of other players.

The world within which the module is embedded, on the other hand, seems
dull and unimaginative.  There seems to be less variety, and less of a
back-story.  I think MG's efforts to avoid unbalancing the game have gone
too far, to the point where the game can be getting too bland.  The
problem with Realm was not that some characters could achieve god-like
powers or capabilities, but that they could do so too cheaply:  The
solution I'd prefer is to let players go after extraordinary goals if
they please, but to make the difficulty correspond to the reward.  The
solution MG seems to be aiming for is to remove the extraordinary from
the modules.

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Dani Zweig
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'T is with our judgements as our watches, none
   Go alike, yet each believes his own
		--Alexander Pope

References

Legends: New Module - DD
darrelln@zikzak (Darrell Neely)
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 09:53:56 +0000