Re: Duelmasters: Need some help!

From: johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John White)

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:58:05 +0000

In article <4619@equinox.unr.edu> kirby@pyramid.unr.edu (Stephen Kirby)
writes:
>In article <1afrv1INNaut@gap.caltech.edu> johnjohn@cco.caltech.edu (John
White) writes:

>Flyn
> 9-16-7-15-15-9-13
>She is 0-1 having fought a 4-1 PS with 29 recognition.

>>Not bad.  What style, though?  I must admit that I've never run a warrior

>Ooops! She is a Parry-Lunger

You got 6 wit comments with that?!  I was under the impression that wit
comments were in some way related to the stats that a warrior had.  I guess
this isn't the case.

>Could you (or anyone else) get more specific on the effects of comments.
>Are they just additional modifiers to various skills? I guess they aren't
>exactly meaningless. Do they relate to how skilled the character is in
>various areas (attack, def., init., etc.)?

At one time I believed that they were modifiers, but I don't know how or in
what way.  I tend to ignore them (it's a sin, I know, but what else can I
do?)

>I could still use the advice. :]

With PL's?  Try going offensive (like 10-10-6), or midrange (like 5-5-3), or
dodging (like 4-9-3).  I've had limited success with each of those
strategies.

>I also have another question. About 3 turns ago(?) there was an ad in the
>newsletter about a book explaining the intracacies (sp?) of Duelmasters
>for $20. I was wondering if anyone had gotten the book and what they
>thought of it. I have been considering getting it since it would help
>the learning curve. I also wonder, though, if it will take some of the
>fun away...

Yeah, Mike LaPlante's DM Handbook.  The ideas about warrior development are
a crock of shit, as are 99.9% of the warrior designs, by "modern" standards,
but it does have some charts that are vaguely interesting and useful.  The
most important ones (weapons) are online, though.  What are you looking for?

And don't worry, if you buy the Handbook, learn and follow it's principles,
you won't start winning beyond belief.  Quite the opposite, actually.

References

Re: Duelmasters: Need some help!
kirby@pyramid.unr.edu (Stephen Kirby)
Sat, 10 Oct 1992 08:09:10 +0000