Re: Legends: Please comment on status trees and victory conditions

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:38:40 +0000

levitin@nodename.dec.com (Samuel M. Levitin):
>Some feel that Vampire status is most effective, but I have misgivings about
>whether there are any hidden side effects.

Vampyre is a superb status tree, but it has two offsetting disadvantages.
The first is that the module is simply crawling with anti-undead spells
which can greatly reduce the utility of the status and of the soldiers
trained with that status.  The second is that if your character becomes
powerful enough, morphs far enough up the status tree, and succeeds in
truly irritating the opposition, they may decide that it's worth while to
spend the mana on a Remove Undead Status spell, and knock you to the bottom
of that tree.

>Also, how about victory conditions? Do different factions have
>different victory conditions? What if you join the Overlord's
>faction? Your victory condition therefore can't be to dispatch
>the Overlord.

The victory conditions of each faction are hinted at in the module's
faction descriptions, and they're different for each faction.  (Not
completely different.  Two different factions might both be required
to own Rok Tathgar at the end of the game, for example, putting them
fundamentally in conflict.

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Legends: Please comment on status trees and victory conditions
levitin@nodename.dec.com (Samuel M. Levitin)
Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:24:58 +0000