Re: DM vs. AG

From: burgesmw@cnsvax.uwec.edu

Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 21:55:08 +0000

> 2) Set EVERYTHING on the strategy       2) Gee, parried again when I'd rather
> sheet.  Dodge 100%, parry 100, or          be dodging
> dodge, parry, ignore, or retreat at
> what you want

What Mike means that you can choose to parry 25% of the time, ignore 50% of
the time, and retreat 25% of the time.  Whatever you choose as long as the
total adds up to 100%.  You don't just have to choose ONE defense like DM.

>
> 3) You control EVERYTHING on set-up.    3) S**t rollup, time to waste money on
> Height, hand, weight, weapons you want     another DA.  Favorite weapon of small
> to train in                                shield!

The main reason DM makes you pay to DA a character is because of a game
flaw.  The flaw is that to be a god, you have to have high stats in certain
areas and low stats in others.  RSI knew this would be figured out, and the
only way to try and make people fight the roll-ups they got was to charge to
get rid of them.  I don't know many people that enjoy running average
characters all the time, but they will settle for a few.  The reason being that
it is very expensive to DA all of the time.  Maybe that is why people just paid
the $5.00 for a team roll-up and hoped there was a god-like guy on it.  To get
five roll-ups by DAing five times is more expensive.

> 7) Set due dates. Results are ALWAYS    7) RSI - you know how it goes
> on time.

RSI may be a little better since this was written (over a year ago I
believe) but when we played, you knew that the turn would be processed within 3
days after the due date (hopefully).

> 9) Team/Group combat: Two on two, five  9) Huh? What's that?
> on three, ten against ten!

When I played, this was actually another thing promised to be added.  So
many empty promises...

Matt

References

DM vs. AG
mburgess@hp.uwsuper.edu (Michael Burgess)
Wed, 19 May 1993 22:40:05 +0000