Re: Advice Wanted (DM) (A New, Improved Follow-Up Article)

From: 860099w@dragon.acadiau.ca (Marty Ward)

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 17:41:43 +0000

mysticbob@aol.com writes:

>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?

Congrats. You're new lunger is awesome with those Expert ratings.  And,
yes, the RSI-generated gladiators are easy to beat.  If one of your
gladiators can't beat 'em, then DA him.

>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?

Well, I'm not going to go into the Stats to Skills chart right now.
(I prefer to call it the Hidden Skills chart.)
As your gladiator gets more ratings in more skill areas, he will
be a better fighter.  This is what you want, so make WIT on your new
roll-ups a 15, 17, or 21.  (There are reasons for not making it a 19.
I won't explain that now, either.)

Okay, here's a short guideline about skills and expert ratings, since
you seem not to know...

There are the six skill areas: Attack, Initiative, Decisiveness, Parry,
Defense, Riposte.  Then, for each skill area then are these expert
ratings: Expert, Advanced Expert, Master, Advanced Master, and
Grandmaster.  This is all explained in the RSI rules.  (RSI doesn't
tell you that there is an Arch Master rating above GM.)

The Big Question: What does it mean to have a rating in a skill area
and how do I measure it?

Answer:

An Expert rating means the gladiator has 16 skills in a skill area.
An Adv Ex            ''                  20
A  Master            ''                  26
An Adv Mas           ''                  34
A  GM                ''                  44

For example:  Let's use your lunger as an example.  We know that he
has an Expert in Init and Att, so he started with at least 16 skills
in those areas and we'll guess how many starting skills he has in
the other areas.  You should know that each new gladiator starts
with a certain amount of skills in each of the six skill areas.

Your Lunger:

Att 16 starting skills
Init 16
Dec  10
Parry 4
Def   10
Rip   9

So, your lunger will need to learn 6 Dec skills to get Expert, 12
for Parry, 6 for Defense, and 7 for Riposte.   After that, then
a gladiator needs to learn 4 more skills for Adv Ex, 6 more for
Master, 8 more for Adv Master, and 10 more for GM.  (See the pattern?)

Also, the ratings may be measured as a percentage.  Expert is 80%
and Adv Ex is 100%.  Just multiply the number of skills by 5% to
get a percentage rating.

>3) What is some basic strategy on attack and protect locations?  I don't see
>much posted about them?  Do they matter?

Ah, yes, strategy questions.  Sorry, youngster, I'm not going to
tell you everything.

>4)  Ok here are my new rolls:

>9-9-9-13-14-4-12

Remember, Wit and Will are important.  Put your points in them first.

I'll just recommend a 11-9-9-17-17-4-17 WST like everyone else.

>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!

You got all the info docs that us regular managers have posted.

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References

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

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