Re: DM: Skills vs. Stats

From: mcgeorbr@ucbeh.san.uc.edu

Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 09:25:12 +0000

In article <1993May27.055201.8431@rdii.com>, jas@rdii.com (Jim Smith) writes:

[Lots of accurate stuff deleted]

> Now, you have to be cautious here, because timing is everything.  If you
> wait too long to train stats, you might get transfered to ADM sooner and
> miss out on training your stats.  The reason THAT is bad, is that when you
> go to ADM, the stat raise percentage chance is RESET so that you are back
> to having a WL * 5 / 1 percent chance of raising a stat on your first turn
> of ADM.  (Isn't this a lovely system!)  This makes it very feasible to raise
> high WL characters 6 or 8 times without huge effort.  By the way, there is
> a limit of 21 on stats in regular DM, but there is NO limit in ADM.

I've seen many newer managers make this mistake, and I think it has to do with
the way RSI wrote the "rules."  Bear with me.

When you get to AD, your first three stat raises have a chance of WL * 5;
however, if you have raised the same stat in basic, those count against the
three.  For example, lets say your warrior has a will of 16 (for simplicity
sake) and a ST of 5.  In basic, you raise his ST to 7.  The first raise was at
80%, the second at 40%.  Congrats, the warrior was just inducted to AD.  In AD,
his first ST raise will be 80% (his third overall), the second at 40%, etc...
It isn't a lovely system!

The limit in AD for stats is 25, btw.
>
> You tend to get the skills you use the most, i.e. attack, init and dec for
> slashers, so it is fairly easy to get 2 or 3 skill areas maxed out before
> you need to start training stats.  It's a very "touchy feely" sort of thing,
> and every manager has his own system for predicting when to train what.
> My understanding is that once you raise the most important skills for a
> given warrior by 20 (like attack, init, and decise for my slasher), you
> should then start raising the stats that would further enhance those skills.

Mane Man
Lots of Arenas
>
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References

DM: Skills vs. Stats
jas@rdii.com (Jim Smith)
Thu, 27 May 1993 05:52:01 +0000