Re: LEGENDS - Bard's Bless

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 19:11:36 +0000

rai@rb.icl.co.uk (Ross Inglis):
>Last August my level 19 Bard in Realm 3 in the UK managed to bless my main
>character for something like 63%. My turn received today with the same
>Bard (now at level 21) blessing the same character only managed about 35%.
>
>I have spent the past year trying to get this Bard up this good...

It's a no-win situation for Midnight Games -- but I'm with you in
deploring their decision to change rules in midgame.  The problem
with bards as they were was simply that they were *too* powerful.
Once you got a high-level bard, you could not only keep your main
characters fully blessed all the time (without having to worry about
mana), but you could blast opponents down to nothing with curses
before a battle.  It's disappointing, I agree, that good bards are
only getting blesses and curses in the 50%-60% range (35% is too
low; I'd inquire) but that's still pretty useful, given that they
can do it every action.  (It'll become more useful as other rule
changes click in, and mana becomes harder to come by.)

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Dani Zweig
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'T is with our judgements as our watches, none
   Go alike, yet each believes his own
		--Alexander Pope

References

Re: LEGENDS - Bard's Bless
baidins@dori.cis.udel.edu (Juris Baidins)
Fri, 19 Nov 1993 17:42:43 +0000
Re: LEGENDS - Bard's Bless
rai@rb.icl.co.uk (Ross Inglis)
Thu, 25 Nov 1993 13:09:55 +0000