Hack and Slash

From: ccs012@chumley.ucdavis.edu (Dennis Cleary)

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 22:45:12 +0000

I wrote...
>>This is pretty much where you have to decide if you want a speedy slasher
>>or an attack slasher.  Speedy slashers are meat in AD, so I'd say put the
>>points into WL.  Of course, with this set-up, I'd go BA or LU (this roll-up
>>is just _screaming_ lunger)

and the Wizard of Oz responded...
>Where did you get the idea that speedy slashers suck.

I've only run about 5 slashers in as many years, and those have been speed
demons who have been eaten alive by defensive styles.  I gave up on them as
burning up endurance too fast to put an opponent down.

However, yesterday I received a(nother abysmal) turn from Andor. My slasher
there, with the remarkable stats of 11-10-9-17-9-17-11, recently got his
second expert rating.  Unfortunately, I didn't get expert Init on the roll-
up (as the Wizard of Oz claims his design will get), but he did get it
after 1.  Not only that, he got Expert Decis in 1 or 2.  That means 2
Advanced Masters (at least, still waiting for Riposte and Defense) by the
time he maxes out on skills.  His attack rating will suffer, and after
maxing out on skills his ability to improve will not be very good, but
in meantime he shows promise.  Besides, the fastest anyone has ever
maxed out was around 40 fights (plus gobs of tourney fights), and that's
almost 2 years of play time.

Checking my info, my slasher was slightly unlucky on his Init bonus (about
10% under what I expected), and right on for his Decis bonus.  Since I
consider 17's to be just about right when it comes to numbers (21's are
wasting 4 points), there aren't a lot of ways to improve Decis, and Init
isn't affected by WL until the "mega-trains."

At 4-1 (lost to an 11-1 TP), it looks like another case of a style
surprising me.

Donald Trump

Wizard of Oz writes...
>ps - Donald Trump, did you know I have/had a team in arena 3 name Elite Cadre ?

Nope.  I imagined there might have been a couple, but hadn't ever heard
of any, so I took the name.  Sorry about that.  Another manager took my
_manager monicker_ and used it for a team name.  He apologized when he
realized his mistake.  Ever hear of Riff-Raff in Delarq Tor (he even put
the hyphen in.  Geez!)  That's an oolllldddd name of mine, which quite
still know me by (well, everybody in AD.  So far...)