Re: Quest: suggestions for startup please

From: Brian Carpenter <btc2@cornell.edu>

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 23:31:29 +0000

Badger, gam@panix.com writes:
>I recently received an ad by Adventures by Mail for their quest game.
>The game is only 3$/turn so I'm going to join as soon as xmas is over.
>
>My question is, what would you suggest is the ideal starter party?
>What equipment would you get?
>
>Personally, I was thinking of the following.
>
>1: Elven mage - party leader
>2: Halfblood fighter
>3: Halfblood fighter
>4: Halfblood thief
>5: Halfblood priest
>6: either Halfblood thief OR Dwarven priest(leaning toward dwarven
priest)
>
>While there may be other party compositions which are more "ideal"
>I'm kinda in the mood for playing a party of mainly halfbloods.
>Any suggestions on what they should purchase for the first setup turn?
>
>thanks
>-Badger

On the setup turn, you can't have two iterations of the same type, so, in
the above example, you can't have 2 halfblood fighters.  This changes
once within the game, where you can recruit others of the same 'type'.
If you are leaning towards halfbloods and don't really want humans, then
you might consider something like:
BF BT BP + 3 of: BM DT DF DP EM

There is no 'ideal' startup party, from what I can tell, and I to am
currently playing a 'concept', allowing only certain races into the group.

Since you've only got 9 orders for purchases, you'll probably want
something like: 6 orders to give each character their 'chosen weapon'.  1
order to get everyone into armor (use a '99' as character number).  1
order to get the town's news-sheet (1 gold and a great buy).  This leaves
you with 1 order left, which can either be used to grab a missle weapon
for someone, or put everyone into helmets.  Those are my suggestions
after screwing up the purchasing orders for my team in the beginning.
It's taken  me a few turns to sort the problems out.  You'll want to hold
on to a substantial amount of gold if you have mages in the party.

If you get into game #1, contact me via e-mail... :)  We'll chat.

-Brian Carpenter

References

Quest: suggestions for startup please
gam@panix.com (Badger)
Sun, 12 Dec 1993 05:32:05 +0000

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Quest: suggestions for startup please
gam@panix.com (Badger)
Sun, 12 Dec 1993 05:32:05 +0000