Adventurer's Guild (was Re: Midnight Games sold?)

From: dag@chem.ucla.edu (Great Cthulhu)

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 23:36:46 +0000

elbereth@rahul.net (Shaun Chin) writes:

[comments on RSI's awful customer service deleted]

>ps - Anyone comment on Adventurer's Guild? I might wanna start that...

ADVANCE DISCLAIMER:  My only experience with DM is one fight at a con demo;
I've only been playing AG for six turns or so.

Personally, I love AG.  It was a bit frustrating for the first three turns or
so, but I finally hit on a good fighting strategy, and am now winning 5 or 6
of my seven fights a turn.  You play one adventurer (you can play more if you
want at a slight discount for additional adventurers in the same guild).  If
you participate in the guild fights, you are grouped in a pool with seven
other adventurers of approximately the same power level and you fight each one
of them.  If you finish in the top three in your group of eight, you get a
slight discount on your turn, and the first time you finish first in your
group you get a free T-shirt (mine is on the way!  I placed first in my battle
group last turn).  You can also challenge a particular adventurer (or group of
adventurers; group fights are allowed in challenges!) to a challenge fight,
which although you get double experience, you also risk your life (there is no
chance of death in the round-robin pool).

OR, instead of the guild fights, you can go adventuring; again, by yourself, or
with a group of other adventurers or NPC hirelings.  I don't have any
experience with this yet, but I'm planning to head out in a turn or two.

The base cost of a turn in the guild is $9.75.  Lately, I've been getting $.75
or $1.00 off that for finishing second or first in my battle group.  I am told
that there is a slightly lower cost for adventuring, but I can't verify that;
the official documentation I have doesn't say anything about that.  The cost
of the rulebook is $3.50 (the majority of which is just to cover postage; I
think they're selling the rulebook more or less at cost).  When you submit
your first turn, if you indicate that you were referred by Paper Mayhem, you
get the $5.00 referral credit yourself (or if you prefer, say you were
referred by whoever referred you and they get the credit).

Hope to see you there soon; if you have any further questions, feel free to
email me.  If you want to reach me in the game, I'm playing Galen Ironfist in
the Antar guild.

Good luck,
--
-Doug Gibson                      dag@wiffin.chem.ucla.edu

"I didn't like the way he was bleeding, so I made him stop."
                              -from Mutant League Football

References

Re: Midnight Games sold?
khearn@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Keith Hearn)
Mon, 08 Nov 1993 23:32:03 +0000
Re: Midnight Games sold?
elbereth@rahul.net (Shaun Chin)
Wed, 10 Nov 1993 07:22:40 +0000
Midnight Games sold?
skrenta@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rich Skrenta)
Mon, 08 Nov 1993 21:33:13 +0000