Re: DM: Skills vs. Stats

From: burgesmw@cnsvax.uwec.edu

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 01:09:36 +0000

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

Who the hell told you this?!?  If this is true, it would have to be a change
that RSI made within the last two years (since I stopped playing).  From what I
remember it was that in ADM your first three raises were at regular chance (it
might have been two, it has been a long time :)  ) and then it started
decreasing.  I don't know where this RESET stuff came from.  If this RESET
thing is true (and something new added) then raising stats would make no
difference at all to your character.  Most characters will not get 20 skills in
any area before ADM.  The only thing I would say (again, if it is true) is that
never raise a stat to 21 since that is a major break point that is best hit
after learning all possible skills.

Matt

References

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