Re: Advice Wanted (DM)

From: bweinstein@pomona.claremont.edu

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 21:39:53 +0000

In article <9401261310.tn32620@aol.com>, mysticbob@aol.com writes:
>Howdy all!
>
>I got my second turn back and thanks to the DA have three new roll-ups to
>work with.  But before I get to those I have a couple of questions about my
>turn results.
>
>1)  I went with the majority of advice I got and now have a lunger with
>11-5-9-15-17-10-17.  You guys most know something because I ran him with
>leather armor and a longsword going 10-10-6 every round and he won big.  He
>went against a game run Convicted Thief and wounded him on the left hand.
>And then the thief gave up?  What's with this?  Is the thief a wimp?  Was it
>an incredible blow?  Oh, he started out with an expert rating in init and
>attack.  Which leads me to my next question?

The NPC warriors (those that are run by the compputer) tend to be very bad and
easy wins for the real warriors.  Your lunger looks really good.  if he learns
well he could be great.

>2)  What affect does skills and ratings have on the fight?  As I understand
>it a fighter can learn X amount of skills during a fight and after so many
>skills they get a rating in that skill?  I have the chart that was posted a
>bit ago (Stats to Skills) but I don't quite follow it?

Basically your warriors skills are how good they are in each area.  Your lunger
started with an expert in attack and init which means that he is pretty good in
those areas.  it takes 16 skills to get an expert, 20 for and advanced expert
and 26 for a master.  Because you warrior started with an expert it means that
he had at least 16 skills in those area already.  Warriors start with skills in
each area bases on there stats and style.  The stat-skill chart you saw shows
what skills are gained for each stat.  Then that is modified by there style and
a little bit of luck
>
4)  Ok here are my new rolls:
>
>9-9-9-13-14-4-12

This guy looks really good!  I would probably do something like

13-11-9-17-17-4-13  Wall of Steel
	This warrior would start with good bases and be able to take average
damage, probably do good damage and have good endurence.  this would be my
first choice.

or:

10-10-9-17-17-4-17  Parry-lunge
	This would be a good warrior (the 17 wit will deftness combo is very
very good!)  But maybe a little low on speed to make a parry-lunge.  You also
would want to raise strength and maybe con once (depending on whether it
started out able to take average damage or not)

>And from my limited observation here are two fighters I
>came up with based on the third roll-up
>11-11-9-17-15-9-12 Parry-Striker
>13-12-9-15-19-4-12 Waste

what ever you do you want to give the roll-up a 13 deftness.  Look at the
stat-skill chart...in everything except speed, all the skills are gotten on odd
numbers.  Your warroir will start with better base skills if you give him a 13
deftness as opposed to a 12.  I would also try and give the warrior a 17 wit
because I have found from personal experience that it helps skills learns alot
and skills learns are the main way a warrior gets better.

>I made these two based on articles about the styles I found posted on this
>group.  If anyone has more articles about other styles or even fighter
>make-up in general I'd love a copy.
>
>Here is what I have pulled off the net so far:
>Phido's PS article
>Weapons vs. Armor
>Phido's Waste article
>DM FAQ
>Stats to Skills
>Weapons vs. Styles
>Weapons and Stats Requirements
>TP Overview
>
>If there are other generic info docs out there could someone post them?
>Thanks for all your wonderful adviceso far!  I'm looking forward to hearing
>more.  Take care!
>
>
>-Shawn
>
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>I'm not a sig but I play one on this post.
>mysticbob@aol.com
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SNOTMAN
Infectious Grooves 13 and Wild Cards 60 and 105

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Advice Wanted (DM)
mysticbob@aol.com
Wed, 26 Jan 1994 18:11:28 +0000