Re: DM and AG

From: leeme@cnsvax.uwec.edu

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 1994 03:17:25 +0000

In article <0097960C.0682D814@pomona.claremont.edu>, bweinstein@pomona.claremont.edu writes:
>
>>I run primarily in Barstow but will send one of my characters over to Ciston
>>this coming turn.  I agree, the fight description for AG has no blurbs for
>>things like critical attacks or critical dodges and is a little dry.  The main
>>reason why I dropped DM for AG was that there are no limits on learning for
>>your characters and you're always learning something every turn.
>>
> Well the other thing I didn't like about AG was that you the main creative
> part was designing your warrior and then you kinda let them run.  There
> isn't too much you can do to change the way your warrior runs.  In
> Duelmasters changing the offensive effort of activity level makes a huge
> difference in how the fight turns out.  In AG you set the range you wanna
> stay at and which then just att.  I would say the only advantage of AG is
> the adventuring, but I didn't find that it was that interesting either.

I would have to disagree on the number of ways you can run your character
after initial set-up.  You can go all out attacking just like in DM at the
start of the fight, but you could also choose to start the fight defensively
then switch to all out attacking after a certain time, energy level, or
wound level.  Also, it doesn't sound like you played enough turns to try
out the other skills available like Combat Magic spells, trip, kick, head
butt, regenerate, tail whip, berserk, flank, backstab, etc, etc.

In DM and AG, or pretty much any other fighting game out there, you would
eventually end up using one basic strategy for most fights anyways.  There
really isn't a lot of variability later on.  Now you got me thinking of
starting up in some power game like Alamaze again! :) Every game different
with many different strategies to win....

Mike Lee

> SNOTMAN

References

Re: DM use weap 2-handed
leeme@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 1994 09:38:49 +0000
Re: DM use weap 2-handed
bweinstein@pomona.claremont.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 1994 21:46:08 +0000
Re: DM and AG
leeme@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Tue, 01 Feb 1994 01:14:52 +0000
Re: DM and AG
bweinstein@pomona.claremont.edu
Tue, 01 Feb 1994 05:53:07 +0000