Re: DM: a decent rollup

From: ewalents@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Erich Walentschak)

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 08:50:56 +0000

Well, you can look at it in 2 ways.  First, if you want this guy to have really
long term potential, the 21 WL will help that.  I try not to look at tho, so
lets ignore that for a second.  :)  The 21 WL also, IMHO, gives a helluva lot
more than just those 8 skills.  It gives you endurance and staying power.  I
havent really noticed WT doing a whole lot of physical things.  Sure the higher
>WT is supposed to help you train, but Ive found that its more important to
fight people with more fights, keep the fights long, and win.  Put this guy at
17 WT/WL and he's not going to win as many fights, period.  If he doesnt win as
>much, its because he's getting knocked out earlier.  Thus, youre losing the
fights and theyre shorter.  In other words youre gonna learn less.  Now, Im not
trying to knock WT completely here.  Its just on this set up, it seems to me
that the 21 WL is much more important than the 17WT.  I tend to like to pump
the strengths and ignore the weaknesses.  It makes for a much higher win/loss
record.

I'd probably lean towards 8-16-10-17-17-5-11 PL right now, since I
>have neither no PLs and don't really want a TP I think.  Will this guy
>do OK as a PL?  He has a 50% chance to not be able to use his
>favorite weapon, as EP, LO, and LS are out of reach for a bit.
>Hopefully the SC would come through!
>
Well, yeah, PL would do pretty well, but will do better with my stats  :)

>Speaking of favorite weapons, how does one do if the hand is ones
>favorite?  I had my basher shatter his HL last turn, and he proceeded
>to pummel his opponent with his fists, getting several crits before
>knocking the guy out.  I assume that a weapon is always better, as the
>guys parrys damaged me.

Dunno, Ive never done well with the open hand at all.

>--
>       David Resnick                           dresnick@athena.mit.edu

Erich
The Wizard

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DM: a decent rollup
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Sat, 03 Jul 1993 17:51:18 +0000