Re: Aimed Blow design: one last time.

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

Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1992 05:10:12 +0000

In article <900667c.87@ace.acadiau.ca> 900667c@ace.acadiau.ca (Gerald Cameron) writes:
>Well, after having read Vlad's ideas on AB design, I have changed my opinion
>on things a bit, so I thought I'd offer it up, just to get some final
>reaction.  In addition to stat ranges, this time I'm going to put in the
>order in which I'd add points to stats...

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.

>1) raise WT to the highest breakpoint you can reach (min 15)

Okay.  This pretty easy to follow.

>2) raise DF to the highest breakpoint you can reach (min 15)

Once again, basic.  You seem to be only warming up, though.

>3) raise WL to the highest breakpoint you can reach UP TO 13

Subject to debate.

>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.

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

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

>6) raise ST to 11 (if not there already), maybe higher

So, now that you've spread the points around to WT, WL, ST, and more
WL, you're going to give him more ST???  I'm lost.

>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?

>Well, that should be good for another round of flames and comments ;)

Flames?  No.  Comments?  Yes.

Why fundamentally change the way that you design characters so that
it can be one particular style?  The way I design characters is this:
Starting with WT, and then moving to WL, DF, ST, and SP, I push each
stat to the nearest breakpoint.  These breakpoints are 5, 9, 13, 17
and 21; thus, I never add more than 3 points to a stat, since if it's
on a break I leave it alone (i.e. 5 SP), and if it's below I break
I push it up (i.e. 15 DF to 17).  After that has been done, I look
at how many points I have left (or, how many points I've gone over),
and see what the character looks like.

After this, I begin pushing the numbers around to see what kind of
a character comes out.  This includes pushing stats past breakpoints
to other odd numbers, reducing stats below breaks, and just generally
taking a look at what I get.

For instance...

Say I get a roll-up that looks something like...

ST 7 CN 5 SZ 6 WT 17 WL 17 SP 5 DF 13

Using my method, the initial character looks like this...

ST 9 CN 5 SZ 6 WT 17 WL 17 SP 5 DF 13, with 12 points left to use.
(I know, I know, I'm dreaming).

Then, I begin adding points in this order: WT, WL, DF, ST, and SP.
I might do something like this:

ST 9 CN 5 SZ 6 WT 21 WL 21 SP 5 DF 17 (can you believe it?  And still
	with only 84 points to his name).

Then, I start messing around with things like endurance, survivability,
and damage.  But, I _don't_ nail this guy down to a style before I even
look at home.

Only people who design AB's do that...

For the record, I would make this guy a 13-5-6-21-17-5-17 Aimed Blow,a
and watch him die on his 20th fight, just before his induction to Primus
straight from regular DM. *sigh*

>Dennis, I leave it up to you whether or not Vlad sees this.

It's on its way.

Trump

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Aimed Blow design: one last time.
900667c@ace.acadiau.ca (Gerald Cameron)
Mon, 23 Mar 1992 17:50:07 +0000

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Aimed Blow design: one last time.
900667c@ace.acadiau.ca (Gerald Cameron)
Mon, 23 Mar 1992 17:50:07 +0000