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- From: rg577@thor.albany.edu (Roderick Grau)
- Subject: Re: Balancing Out Mages and Priests with Other Classes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.205337.11142@sarah.albany.edu>
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- Organization: State University of New York at Albany
- References: <mgr254@rpi.edu> <1992Dec21.114148.9520@fwi.uva.nl> <n1r2+t-@rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 20:53:37 GMT
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- In article <n1r2+t-@rpi.edu> petitc@vccnw02.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- >storm@fwi.uva.nl (Richard G.C. Storm (I89)) writes:
- >
- >>petitc@vccsouth30.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- >
- >>> I think I found a way to help give Warriors and Rogues a fighting chance
- >>>(pun intended). Make it so that all classes can only wear armor up to a
- >>>certain 'bulkiness' (e.g. minus to-hit). Of course, Mages and Priests can't
- >>>wear ANY armor (even Soft Leather). Warriors can wear anything, while
- >>>Rogues can wear almost anything, Rangers wear less, but Paladins wear a decent
- >>>amount (But take Glyph of Warding away from these guys!).
- >
- >>> Sound decent?
- >
- >>No it doesn't... Again mages and priest are downgraded instead of warriors
- >>upgraded. How could a mage or priest get any decent resisting armor like
- >>this if every good armor he finds can't be worn???
- >
- > Oh, Mages and Priests CAN wear armor---just not BODY armor (e.g. Soft
- >Leather). And, since any kind of armor can be enchanted, they can wear
- >armor.
- >
- [bunch of stuff deleted]
-
- Speaking of enchantments, a good mage should be able to rely on his spells
- to get through. So something like Soft Leather affords him some protection
- until he can enchant it to something like Soft Leather (R) [+10 Str]. A
- mage should be able to enchant any weapon/armor with just about anything.
- The saving throws would be what gets him to waste his mana. A preist
- should be able to wear armor, but the armor he wears affects his ability to
- pray comfortably (how would you like to kneel in full plate mail?)
-
- Giving a rouge the ability to back stab would be proper, and adding
- something like a poison shop with which he could poison his daggers make
- sense.
-
- Now we are talking about turning Moria into a huge AD&D game in which it
- becomes very realistic. Then we would have a 2.5Mb source and I don't
- think anyone wants it to go that far. Sure we would all love some more
- realism, and we are willing to sacrifice a few thing. Do we want to
- sacrifice our hard drives?
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- #define TRUE 0
- #define FALSE 0
- #endif
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