Re: Duelmasters - AD stat training

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

Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1992 21:11:50 +0000

In article <1992Mar6.052104.19431@cco.caltech.edu>  writes:
>Scott Stortzum suggested that I post this question since we seemed to have
>heard conflicting things.
>
>Stat training in AD seems to follow the guideline of 3 trains w/o lowering
>the chances to train, then, halving of chance to train after each train.  We
>both have heard and agree on that.
>
>The question is, do regular DM stat trains affect your chance to train in AD?
Yes.

>I've heard that when you get to AD, true you get 3 free trains, but at the
>chance that you currently have in that attribute. Scott believes that chances
>are "reset" once a warrior gets to AD. If this was true, the best thing to do
>would be to train stats in regular DM to a point right below the next
>breakpoint or within shooting range of those 25+ trains.
>
>Anyone care to comment?

It specifically states in the AD literature that you get 3 "free" stat
raises (stat raises that are all at the same chance as if it were the first
time you were training it) past your _original_ stat.

It gives an example of a striker who had raises his SP from 18 to 20 in DM,
but because of the difficulty of raising it a third time, left it at 20. In
AD, raising SP to 21 could be done at the same chance as raising it to 19
had been done, but each additional stat raise past that would be at half
the previous chance.

Unless things have changed since I got my AD literature (very possible) this
is how things have worked out.

HOWEVER, it may appear to some that raising stats in AD is easier than expected
because their characters have trained their WLs into the superhuman range
(>21).  I have no idea what effect this may have on stat trains, since none of
my characters have maxed out on skills yet, but it almost certainly increases
your chances of raising stats beyond what is expected in normal DM.

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Duelmasters - AD stat training
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