Re: Legends:some question

From: griffith@fx.com (Jim Griffith)

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1993 01:18:45 +0000

ry@usl.com (Schwark R.) writes:

>My suggestions are:

>2) Depending upon your preferences for positions, influence mongers are very
>powerful in this game!  With a title and pumped up influence, you can start
>grabbing major location holders from turn 1!  Very quickly a influence monger
>can beat out everyone in characters and locations just by grabbing people
>who are guild owners and the like.  Unless you've got a strong preferenc3e
>for hero positions, I'd suggest that you take a human influence monger
>with a major title.

Beg to differ.  The problem is that in the variant games, it is so fast-paced
that it is hard for anyone other than the faction senior to get prestige.
Depends on the faction to a large extent - the Elven and Overlord factions
have enough prestige to ship it out initially.  It's certainly not worth
doing for the smaller factions like the Lords of the Abyss or the Celestial
Knights (I was the Lords senior for RTI10 for a while).

>3) Don't waste points on status'  Most of them can be gotten through your
>faction.  Don't waste points on Marks, with a major influencer, you'll
>get guild owners with marks.  Don't waste points on Ancient Arcana spells,
>there will be people in the game who can give them to you.

I *definitely* disagree here.  It isn't worth getting the low-level statuses,
but the high-level statuses are *way cool* and worth getting.  One of our
players took Greater Daemon (highest purchasable Evil Netherworld status),
which was *really* cool.  He morphed to Daemon Lord in the first combat, and
he had a tactics of 36, an influence of 14, and a PC of 60 (unblessed).
Shapeshifter Lord is *really* nasty - +50STR, +50DEX, which gives you +500%AF,
plus the ability to shapeshift.  It's worth buying high-level Netherworld or
Lycanthrope status.  I have little experience with the Good statuses (good is
for wimps).

Marks of Wizardry are worth buying if you're going to be a serious arcanist,
but since your faction senior will probably have a better arcanist than you,
you probably don't want to go that route.

Create Orb of the Seer is worth buying, but none of the others are.

Using the RTI10 point sheet, here are some sample "good choices" in my
opinion:

level 32 Seer with Create Orb of the Seer (40), 2 white crystal (5),
	2 cinderoak, 3 precious gems (4), Mark of Wizardry or Power (35)
	remaining 16 points put into whatever.  Gives you a level 52 seer
	with Eye of God ability and either healing or mana recovery boost.

Greater Daemon plus a character action, 20 TAC, and 25 PC, for a
	really nasty troop trainer (can't afflict until you morph once,
	unfortunately, but after you morph, you can train level 450 level
	32 greater netherworld troops per turn).

Mercenary King plus a character action, 20 TAC, 25 PC, for a nasty
	troop trainer - mercenary commandos

Shapeshifter Lord

Dragon Lord

Mystic or Paladin Lord (troop trainer)

Jim

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References

Re: Legends:some question
gilgamesh@csource.oz.au (Benjamin Hurwitz)
Thu, 22 Jul 1993 22:27:38 +0000
Re: Legends:some question
ry@usl.com (Schwark R.)
Fri, 23 Jul 1993 13:00:53 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Legends:some question
gilgamesh@csource.oz.au (Benjamin Hurwitz)
Thu, 22 Jul 1993 22:27:38 +0000
Re: Legends:some question
ry@usl.com (Schwark R.)
Fri, 23 Jul 1993 13:00:53 +0000