Re: Duelmasters - Tourney Skill Inflation again

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

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 08:44:02 +0000

In article <1992Feb24.131953.13081@cco.caltech.edu>  writes:
>Ok, I've asked about this before,but I'll mention it again. In the last Face
>to Face, my lunger fought...well. Very well. As a matter of fact, she seemed
>to fight with skills she didn't have.  She made offhand weapon attacks which
>she never seems to do in the regular arena.Actually she threw a couple crits
>in that same situation. This NEVER happens in the regular arena. Does anyone
>know why?  Has anyone else experienced this?!?!?!

A signficant amount of how well your warrior does is related to the level of
competition that he/she is fighting.  It's very possible that the warriors
in your arena are, in general, tougher than anything you fought in the
tourney.

Secondly, lungers do well against almost all other styles because they are
such a strong style, both offensively and defensively.  A strategy designed
by a TP to be effective against BA, SL, ST, and the like is not going to be
one that works especially well against lungers, because of their unique
style.  In most tourneys, TPs reserve the non-standard strategy for use
against other TPs.  In the face-to-face, your opponent may have had to use
a "regular" strategy that simply wasn't going to do well against your
lunger.  A lunger is more mobile than a basher, with better endurance than
a slasher, and better attack than a striker (although nowhere near the
endurance burn).  Therefore, he more or less has to hope that his char-
acter's innate skills are better than your lunger's innate skills, and we
both know that in most cases, this just ain't so.  For finesse styles
other than TPs, this effect is even greater.

Finally, it's possible that you simply hit on your warrior's favorite
strategy, and they responded appropriately.  It happens... :)

I've seen enough of my warriors *not* do in tourneys what they do regularly
in the arena to be leary of saying that tourneys give added skills.  If
the skills were added across the board, the net effect would be for them
to cancel out among warriors.  I strong suspect that no such effect
occurs.

You are just inordinately lucky. :) :) :)

Trump

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References

Duelmasters - Tourney Skill Inflation again
kanga.caltech.edu!johnjohn (John White)
Mon, 24 Feb 1992 13:19:53 +0000