Re: Legends - Mobility

From: pmf@belatrix.astro.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers)

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 14:17:36 +0000

In article cfdrvHS00UzxE4NV4q@andrew.cmu.edu, tw1t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Theodore Wadsworth) writes:
>Even more questions,
>
>How much movement is there in Legends?  I was looking forward to
>exploring the map, then I ran accros a comment that said that possitions
>were highly localized.  If they are very local, why?

With the world being 120 by 80 provinces (or there abouts) and you being able
to travle 2-12 provinces a turn (dependant on terrain, mount etc) it would take
a long time to cover the whole world. Sure you could run from one side to the
other fairly quickly but you would miss a lot.

>
>I am starting with an adventure party.  What initial tactics are
>recommended.  Considering that I have many open skill slots I was
>considering a lot of self training to begin with.  Party consists of:
>Arcane, Priest, Ranger, 2Fighters and a Thief.  The arcane is the leader
>but is poorly built (my first attempt - I have allready learned the
>errors of my ways ;-(   ).  Any opinions on Adventurer parties are
>welcome.

I'd always thought that the main arguements in favour of an Adventurer party were
that you got to choose a larger number of skills at startup (no chasing around
to try and find a priest or a bard etc.) and that your starting characters were
yours for like as they are very difficult (if not impossible ?) to influence away,
ie. you don't spend ages training someone only to have them influenced off you.

>One argument for adventurer over hero is that the lead character can be
>trained so quickly by a supporting character group that it will soon
>almost equal the hero and still have the supporting five characters.  I
>don't understand why Hero is prefferable.  (Is it?)

You've only got three slots so you can't train you main character that much.
The HERO gets you just that little bit more - if you concentrate on an area
you can get a much better HERO, and you can only train so much. If your D
character spends all of his/her time training to catch up with the E's then
you aren't making good use of him.

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References

Legends - Mobility
Theodore Wadsworth <tw1t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Wed, 17 Mar 1993 19:41:07 +0000