AG: Low Stamina

From: dsaville@vesta.unm.edu (David G. Saville)

Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1993 01:29:05 +0000

In article <DAO.93Jun3082219@deadhead.mitre.org> picasso@acs.bu.edu writes:
>
>While I was think of David Saville's design for Guill I was wondering why he
>choose to go with a 16 STR & 5 STA, why not 15 STR & 6 STA or 17 STR & 4 STA ?
>What is lowest an attribute should start at ? I know the absolute minium is 1
>but are there any characters that actually started this low ?
>
>David Ondzes

I wanted to start with way above average strength for the great sword.
A 5 stamina is about as low as I will comfortably go.  Things would not have
changed significantly with the 17 str, 4 stam.  Mike was correct that this
was largely a personnal feeling rather that an absolute thumb rule.  I agree
with Mike's earlier post on low stats/stam.  There have been a couple of
great sword wielders who have gotten away, early on, with a 1 stam.  They
depended on high dex,str, and cun to drop their oppenents in the first
paragraph of the fight.  I would not recomend this.  I believe that the
low stamina came back to bite them later as their opponents were able to
hold on for a while.

David Saville