Re: LEGENDS: warning about items

From: dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)

Date: Sat, 15 May 1993 18:05:57 +0000

In article <1sue5i$a56@agate.berkeley.edu> griffith@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith) writes:

> The point that comes out of this is that you *cannot* take information from
> one company's Legends game and apply it to the same module in a different
> game.  Each company does things differently.  Personally, I don't use Dean's
> list except as a very general reference (and since I have my own extensive
> list, rarely at that), because he accepts information from any source without
> identifying the source in the list, and I don't want to get stung by assuming
> an item works the same way in the US as it does in Austria or somewhere else.
> So far, the worst I've seen are name changes (#1130 Tallison's Helm is called
> "Nellor's Helm" in Austria, for instance, and I haven't observed the same MR
> and SAR bonuses with it that the Austrian item reportedly gives), but if
> they've tampered with the database to that extent, then I'm not willing to
>  assume that they haven't tampered with internals.

Are you sure that the MAR/SAR bonuses are really different?  Could it
be that it was reported by an inexperienced player (someone at my level :-})
who had trouble dissecting what item/status/etc is giving his
character which benefits?

>   At any rate, we have at least one solid example of differences between
>   Legends games.  So be careful.

Unless anyone finds important differences between items, it seems to
me like Dean's list can be quite valuable.  Now when we find an item
that kills you in one game and helps you in another under the same
circumstances, then I'll really worry!

-David
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       David Resnick                           dresnick@athena.mit.edu

References

LEGENDS: warning about items
griffith@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith)
Thu, 13 May 1993 21:21:54 +0000

Referenced By

LEGENDS: warning about items
griffith@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith)
Thu, 13 May 1993 21:21:54 +0000