Re: AG: Questions on Adventuring

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

Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 19:35:33 +0000

In article <C7Jn0w.751@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pat3n@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Patrick A. Truman) writes:
>Hello there,
>
>I have a question or two on adventuring:
>
>1)  Are the rules accurate about a level one adventure being a
>challenge for a character/group of 250 power?  Does this mean level
>two is a challenge for 500 power, etc.?  I'd appreciate any info about
>LOW POWER level adventures.

No, the monster encounters are based on a percentage of the party's
power level.  Therefore, a low level party going on a level 10 adventure
will not run into monters nearly as tough as a high level party going out
at the same difficulty.  The difficulty of an adventure is not the linear
progression suggested above (250, 500, etc).  But, low level party's usually
lack balance, experience, etc, so they should not plan to survive higher
level adventures.  Whenever I go out with a low level character or group, I
limit the difficulty level to <5 until I have some idea on how well the
party works together.  And, usually, low level parties can not pick locks,
detect traps, or cast alot of spells so I usually stick to a high combat
interest and 0 intrigue and magic.

>2) Are there any LOW POWER (<200 or so...) people in Antar who'd like
>to go on an adventure on turn 88 (I think that's correct... I'm
>assuming turn 86 will run June 1st, so two turns after that... )

Sorry, my lowest character is pushing 400 power.  If you would like
to go out with him sometime (it may be boring because high level characters
will dominate the adventure with low power characters), let me know.

>3)  Any comments on minimum stats for a level 1/2/etc adventure?  Any
>skills you feel are essential (combat sense, I assume, but what else?)
>or any skills I shouldn't waste my e.p's and k.p.'s on?

You should definitly get combat sense to level 1 as soon as possible.
At level 1, you will not attack your allies by accident.  There are really
no stats mins for a successful adventure.  It depends on how your character
is set up and what skills he has.  Generally speaking, in the early going,
you can not go wrong by raising stats as fast as you can.  As far as
essential skills, it also depends on what you want your character to
do on adventures.  A well balanced party will have detect traps, cure party,
lockpicking, a dedicated spell caster, dedicated fighters, etc.  If you
give me more info on your character as well as what you would want to
accomplish in the future, I can give you a much better answer to this question.

>4)  How much experience can I get on an adventure both with and
>without a training amulet?  And would I be a fool not to use an amulet
>with low power characters?

Your experience will vary due to many factors.  But, generally, a
training amulet adventure will get you around 25 EP's while the same adv
without one will get you around 40 EP's.  You would not be a fool to go
out without some means of return, but do not get too attached to that
character :)

>Thanks,
>
>pat

David Saville

References

AG: Questions on Adventuring
pat3n@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (Patrick A. Truman)
Mon, 24 May 1993 18:22:07 +0000