Re: DM: New Roll-up

From: ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu (Yeon Choi)

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 01:45:48 +0000

In article <2k5s6c$pfn@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> hitz@cumbna.bioc.columbia.edu writes:
>In article <2k5pmgINN8ut@uwm.edu> dray@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Ray Giese)
>writes:
>>:Just got it : 9-6-16-14-10-3-12.
>>:WT->17 DF->17 WL->15 is what I was thinking,
>>:but is that speed too low, and what would a
>>:9-6-16-17-15-3-17 (+1) warrior be (seems too
>>:low speed for offense and no con for defense)
>
>Hey!  Don't complain!  Low CN, Low SP is fairly ideal.  It won't however,
>go 10-0.  The extra point can be stuck on SP or ST. I think here they're
>about equal.  You might get a damage bonus with the 10 ST, but 4 SP is
>probably better than 3.  I would go SL or LU.  Hmm.  15 WL, 6 CN 9 ST--
>This guy will have _no_ endurance.  I'd be surprised if a LU or SL lasted
>past the 2nd minute.  I might go AB. It will probably die, though.  You

Actually, I was just reading this post and it occurred to me that this
character doesn't *really* need to have any points added to WL at all
especially if you're going for AB.

How about a 13-6-16-17-10-5-17 AB.  ST 13/SZ 16 gives you a pretty good
shot at great damage, with an outside chance at tremendous.  Aimers
preserve endurance so well that even poor endurance ones can go 8 minutes
at 10-10-x (of course, they don't do much for minutes 3-8 except sit
back and wait for their opponent to bleed into submission).

The extra ST might also give you hidden bonuses associated with the
style.  I don't have enough info to conclude that these bonuses exist,
but when I was collecting data I noticed (warning: subjective observation
-- the most likely to be incorrect) that the better rollups got bonuses
in key categories that were out of line with normal "stylistic" bonuses.

For the AB style, I had one ST 21 WT 15 DF 21 Aimed Blow who got a bonus
that was approximately twice the recorded mean bonus (something like
a mean of +15, and an actual bonus of +30) which seemed to indicate to
me that something strange was going on.

This probably isn't enough to change your reasons for picking a certain
style or roll-up, but it is something to look into.

Trump
ez007195@dale.ucdavis.edu

PS  This isn't something that's ever been confirmed by an RSI employee,
but then I've only talked to Phido once over the phone and once by
diplo.  He's not too likely to dump his most precious secret in my lap
when the question I asked was about a WT 19 WL 15 Parry-Strike who started
out 5-1-2.  I talk to Tex and Barb regularly, but both are self-described
anti-number crunchers.

Anyone else ever notice this effect?

References

DM: New Roll-up
dray@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Ray Giese)
Sat, 19 Feb 1994 19:35:44 +0000
Re: DM: New Roll-up
Ben 'Critical' Hitz
Sat, 19 Feb 1994 20:18:20 +0000

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DM: New Roll-up
dray@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Ray Giese)
Sat, 19 Feb 1994 19:35:44 +0000
Re: DM: New Roll-up
Ben 'Critical' Hitz
Sat, 19 Feb 1994 20:18:20 +0000