From: Brent Krupp (fletcher@u.washington.edu)
Date: Sat 09 Jul 1994 - 03:50:44 EEST
On Sat, 9 Jul 1994, alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk (alex)
>
> Devin Cutler, and his berserk .signature:
>
> > There is no reason under RQ3 for a Priest to keep his POW at 18. Better
> > spent on Divine Magic AND better kept at around 13 so that POW gain
> > rolls occur about 60% of the time.
>
> But you're a follower of the True Religion of RQ2, Devin, aren't you? ;-)
> Certainly I recall you making statements such as "priests making their DI
> roll about 18% of the time".
>
I hate to bring up a rules-based question like this on the Digest, but Devin and Alex's exchange makes it seem appropriate: am I the only person who remembers that in RQ2 priests had a maximum POW (for gain rolls) of 25?
All this debate about how Priests should have a high POW (18 or so) in RQ3, and how then that means very few POW gains and thus few Resurrections or whatever, ignores that in RQ2 an 18 POW still meant a 35% of gaining POW with a roll, and that RQ3 (broken as it is) in dropping the POW max to 21, and removing the POW minimum *must* expect RQ3 priests to keep their POW below 18.
To bring this back to a Digest-like topic, I think under RQ3 or RQ:AiG rules, it is plain *wrong* to say that priests keep their POW up at 18. They will keep it lower, they will get POW more often than 15%, and so Resurrections or whatever divine spell is being argued over, will be more available than otherwise.
Brent Krupp (fletcher@u.washington.edu)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 10 Oct 2003 - 01:35:47 EEST