Re: Aimed Blow design: one last time.

From: ccs012@fella.ucdavis.edu (Riff-Raff)

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1992 20:38:26 +0000

In article <900667c.92@ace.acadiau.ca> 900667c@ace.acadiau.ca (Gerald Cameron) writes:
>In article <18877@aggie.ucdavis.edu> ccs012@george.ucdavis.edu (Riff-Raff) writes:
>
>>Demon, you've lost me.  And that's not easy to do, considering that I
>>make a living leaving people in the dust, conversation-wise.  Up to
>>a point I understand you, and then I begin to feel like I did when
>>I was taking Numerical Analysis.

>What do you do for a living, Dennis?  Anyways, as I shall soon show (I hope)
>all that Greek is just English in sheep's clothing :)

I'm a Comparative Literature major, as well as a student reporter, and a
consultant in the labs.  In all of these positions, it is important to *appear*
knowledgeable even when you haven't a clue.  Anyone else who has "archetypical"
in their vocabulary will know what I mean. :)

>>>4) IF SZ >= 9 raise ST to 11 (if possible, otherwise, maximize)
>>>   IF SZ < 9 raise ST to 7
>
>>The beginnings of confusion.  Shouldn't this be the other way
>>around?  SZ greater than 9, and you can leave ST at 7?  Otherwise,
>>you're dooming the little guys to little damage.
>
>Actually, what I was looking at here was looking at here was weapoon
>selection.  If you're over SZ 9 it's nice to be able to use the QS.
>Otherwise, EP is about the bare minimum.  I don't think that damage is all
>that important to ABs.  After all, if you can hit a guy at will fifteen
>times, why worry about how much damage each individual blow does?  I'm
>sure you'll come up with some counter-arguement, but that's what this
>group's all about, right?

Interesting approach that is modified somewhat by the fact that you do actually
come back later and add more points to ST.

>>>5) raise WL to the highest breapoint you can reach

>>But you've already done that, haven't you?  Why do it twice?

>AH, but I haven't!  At least not necessarily.  If you can get WL to 15 or
>higher, it currently stands at 13, and should be raised some more. Kapish?

Kapish.

>>>7) raise SP to maximum
>
>>SP?  No...never SP!!!  Leave it at 3.  Now I'm really confused.  Maybe
>>you mean CN?  Maybe you mean, raise SP to a coordination breakpoint,
>>then put the rest in WL?  Why SP?
>
>I seriously doubt there are many roll-ups that could actually get to the
>point where you want to add SP, but it's here for the sake of
>completeness.  No need to get hysterical, Dennis.

Hysterics?  Call it an allergic reaction to adding points to SP. :)

When you're down to a point or two, you're basically "fine tuning" your roll-up
(assuming that the roll-up is malleable enough to do this - often I'm left
wondering where I'm going to get the extra two points I need for an 11 DF, or
17 WT, or even *sniffle* both).  I don't see adding points to SP as fine-tuning,
just like I don't think adding points to CN is fine-tuning.  Yet, I am not the
most successful manager in AD.  Therefore, I aim to be the most vocal. :)

>Isn't 7 a breakpint?

All odd numbers are breakpoints, but only 5, 9, 13, 17, and 21 offer the major
bonuses.  A 7 is a "minor" break, better than an 8 and infinitely better than
a 6, but not quite the same a 5 or 9.

[description of my anal way of designing characters]

>Actually, that's a neat way of going about things.  I wind up with muchthe
>same results of you, but I don't really get very structured about it.

Well, I only have so much structure to go around.  Since I don't use any in
my *actual* real-life struggles with order, I choose to do so in my games. :)

>>Only people who design AB's do that...
>
>You forgot your smiley.

Not.  I've been battling Vlad over character design enough to know that Aimed
Blows are an addiction.  His first reaction is to see if it can be an AB, and
then he looks at other options.  I've managed to convince him otherwise all of
twice, once for a SZ 4 PR who died in a tourney, and again for a SZ 9 Plunger
who's currently 11-8 (I think).  Neither have been sterling successes, and so
Vlad has blasted me.

Face it, AimedBlowitis is an addiction, and it needs to be treated. :)

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References

Aimed Blow design: one last time.
900667c@ace.acadiau.ca (Gerald Cameron)
Mon, 23 Mar 1992 17:50:07 +0000
Re: Aimed Blow design: one last time.
ccs012@george.ucdavis.edu (Riff-Raff)
Tue, 24 Mar 1992 05:10:12 +0000
Re: Aimed Blow design: one last time.
900667c@ace.acadiau.ca (Gerald Cameron)
Wed, 25 Mar 1992 00:44:30 +0000