Re: DM: Beginner's rollups

From: hitz@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu (Ben Hitz)

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 21:56:16 +0000

In article <1993Jul06.130541.448@pencom.com> Brian Hobbs,
brian@pencom.com writes:

>The documentation is quite sparse.

You noticed!  Actually, there is very little useful info in those docs...

>I ask for your help in determining the
>potentials for these characters, where are good places to put points,
and what
>styles they're suited for.  I'm more interested in learning the aspects
of the
>game than winning lots at the beginning, so I'd like to try and have a
>different style for each character.  Also, I'm sort of enamored with the

>aimed-blow open-hand concept.  None of these seem suited to the task
(they all
>suffer in at least one stat), but I'd appreciate any opinions on how to
get one
>of these to be a reasonable AB open-hand fighter.

Open-Hand AB's are a great concept.  But much trouble in practice.  My
current theory (and it is just a theory) is that to use FI (open hand)
effectivly, you must have a really, really high attack rating.  Like
Master (in lower ranks), or AdMaster (in higher).  My guess is that it
would also work if you had an AB that did 'Great' or better damage.

When first making characters, you have to decide whether you want
long-term or short-term warrors.  I don't run short-term ones, the game's
too expensive.  I don't think you can learn much from them, because you
have to DA them before you lean anything.  The key to a sucessful
chararter (not always!) is WT.  You should have at least 13, though 11
occasionally works.  WL is another bigge, though there are certain low WL
combos that work.  Most warrriors should have at least 11 DF.  Oh,
WT-WL-DF breakpoints are 13-15-17-21.  SP and CN don't really have break
points.  ST, well, I'd say 7-15-17-21.  You want to do at least 'Normal'
(no comment) damage.

>ST-CN-SZ-WT-WL-SP-DF
>
>06-09-17-09-09-06-14

One possiblility would be 7-9-17-15-15-6-15.  I'm not really sure what to
make it.  Could be a decent anything, pretty much.  Not great, but
decent.  Also: 7-9-17-15-13-6-17  This might make a decent PS, or maybe
PR.  A tough rollup to call.

>06-13-15-13-05-13-05

Ouch!  5 WL, 5DF! that sucks   10-13-15-17-5-13-11 ST is about all you
can do.  Hope he hits hard!

>13-10-18-07-04-08-10

Another giant! This guy I would probably DA.  Won't even make a good
Dixie (Short-term).
If you insist: 13-10-18-13-7-8-15 ST or BA.  Not a good 'un.  Might want
to stick the 3 WL into ST, but I doubt it will make much diff.

>12-03-07-06-11-17-14

3 CN == Offensive (R. O. Thumb: Never add to CN, or SP)
Damn!  Just too dumb!  More DA material:
Short term: either 13-3-7-6-17-21-17
or                         17-3-7-6-17-17-17 (Better, maybe)  SL, ST, or
LU  Advantage of ST is that he can make use of 17 ST, and will be
slightly faster.  SL and LU have higher Attack ratings.  If you want a
short-term SL or LU, go with 1st roll-up.

>14-06-15-09-10-05-11  Not bad.  14-6-15-15-15-5-15 or put 13 in WT or WL
and bump DF to 17.  I would make this a SL or LU.  Probably LU, they deal
with low SP better.  Take the 15 WL (either) with a LU.

Hope that helped more than confused.  I promise more help, if you join
arena 53!

Ben Hitz
Arenas: 53,52, 105 maybe 22 again, someday...

References

DM: Beginner's rollups
brian@pencom.com (Brian Hobbs)
Tue, 06 Jul 1993 13:05:41 +0000