> > Uh... daggers are 1d4 for a reason... 1 = a scratch, 4 = a hard pierce into > > your gut... I think the random numbers work great, it sctually makes sense. > > No, it doesn't. After all, if this is someone who just started the game > fighting someone who's been working at it for a week who manages a "hard > pierce into [his] gut" that causes four points of damage... no. > > And if this is one newbie fighting an experienced player who somehow has > 6 hp... how is it that the newbie is able to hit someone who's > experienced that hard? It doesn't make sense at all. Exactly... that's why experienced people dont have 6 hps. > Someone who really > knows how to use a dagger well should be able to kill an experienced > player (500hp) with it as easily as he'd kill a newbie (5hp). After all, > even experienced players have vulnerable spots... So you mean to tell me that someone very proficient with a knife could just as easily kill a small chaild as he could kill a Navy SEAL or US Marine? I doubt it. The kid you'd stab through the head because he wouldnt know any better. The marine would avoid the shot, taking a scratch whereas the kid would take it in the brain. and they don't get any > less vulnerable the more proficient you get with magic, or whatever. Exactly... that's why mages in AD&D get 1-4 hps per level and warriors get 1-10. A lv 20 warrior maxxes with 200 hps, much more experienced and hard to kill than the mage who maxxed with 80. And it works the same on muds. What mud have you ever seen where a mage gets as many or more hps than a warrior? > I agree that there should be some randomness to account for "luck" or the > weapon hitting some kind of fault in your opponent's armor. I just don't > feel that a 400% increase in damage based totally on what mood the > computer's in today makes sense. Who the hell ever sugegsted that? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Systems Administrator of MudTech.com. Send an Email to M T tourach@cyber1.servtech.com for info on how you can run U E your mud or chat client on MudTech. D C Visit Ebon Mists MUD at ebonmists.roc.servtech.com 8888 H +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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