Re: The Count versus 30 men

From: sjc@cs.purdue.edu (Steve Chapin)

Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 21:01:55 +0000

}} In article <9301311731.AA00849@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mark__Nielsen <mnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
}}
}} 	   I put in his character history that he killed 30 1st or 2nd level
}} fighter's/thieves single handedly. Some of the people who I played with were
}} idiots didn't believe
}} this was fair, and it ended up that they thought he was too arrogant, which
}} he was.  He was a noble and they treated him like a peasant, so it was their
}} fault, but eventually I had to make him quit because the people didn't believe
}} him his storyies and also didn't like him. Of course the DM helped kick
}} the character out also.

Hi, Mark.  Guess what?  Some of those "idiots" read this newsgroup.

For the public, I was playing a character who got in a fight with the
Count (known as Count Clown to the rest of us, because he was such an
oaf).  I am the chief "idiot" who challenged Mark on his outrageous
story; he left out the other things the count supposedly did in the
course of a couple of days, the sum total of which was too
unbelievable for even the most Munchkinish AD&D'er to stomach.

I make the same challenge I did then, Mark:  give me the 30 guys to
run, you take the count, and let's get a neutral referee.  The count
will be dead faster than you can think about it.

BTW, multi-classed characters are NOT ALLOWED to specialize.  Read
that again.  The count can't get all those weapons bonuses and have
any of those spells to cast.  So decide which set of skills you want:
the fighter skills (including specialization), or the mage's skills.
You can't have both.

The tactics displayed by a group has nothing to do with their level,
in the AD&D world.  As another poster suggested, all I have to do is
have the living guys collect the missile weapons from the count.

}} He was a noble and they treated him like a peasant, so it was their
}} fault, but eventually I had to make him quit because the people didn't believe
}} him his storyies and also didn't like him. Of course the DM helped kick
}} the character out also.

I tried to explain this to you in mail before, but it obviously isn't
getting through.  Your character's actions are *his*
responsibility (and yours), and no one else's.

sjc@cs.purdue.edu                 Steve Chapin                 ...!purdue!sjc
            Hear, hear! Who's here who knows whose booze this is?

"I'm Mephistopheles, Prince of Darkness!  When I start to harass you,
            you'll know it!" (Jon Lovitz, on Saturday Night Live)

References

The Count versus 30 men
Mark__Nielsen <mnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sun, 31 Jan 1993 17:31:19 +0000

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The Count versus 30 men
Mark__Nielsen <mnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sun, 31 Jan 1993 17:31:19 +0000