Message no. 1

From:	Joshua Ring strago@***.com
Subject:	The dangers of stats (Was Re: Looking for info on famous decker -
Date:	Tue, 26 Dec 2000 20:13:12 -0800

"J. Keith Henry" wrote:

> <SNIP>
> Okay, now even *I* don't have to resort to extremes like these for something
> like Lofwyr. In fact, I had a group that had really gotten irked off by the
> dragon and proceeding to start a campaign against him. They started doing
> jobs specifically against the dragons holdings.
>

No, I mean the player was pissed and so he wanted to march his character into
the head Saedar-Krupp offices in Germany and kill everyone until Lofwyr showed
himself at which point his "nifty physadness" (his words) would come out after
his initiations and then he'd proceed to beat Lofwyr down one-on-one in combat.
And he wanted to know if he could do it. This from the player who looked through
the Monstrous Compendium and figured out that his Elven Ranger, using two
swords, when he reached Level 10, could beat down a Red Dragon without help in
something like 25 rounds (that whole multiple strikes in a round thing) because
he'd take off X many Hit Points each strike and he'd get 4 strikes in a round.
Sad, really. He's still such a child...

> <SNIP>
> I do recall a group trying to destroy Lofwyr in another game, but having
> their butts handed to them because they didn't pay attention to the dragon
> that was using a small laser-designator/FDDM system to call in help with tec
> hno-precision and be ultimately annoying without barely breaking a sweat and
> getting in some additional flying time (particularly nice day with a good
> breeze from the south... ;-).
>
> I don't know, I'm not saying its *impossible* to beat Lofwyr, I just think
> it would take a hell of a lot of shoehorning and hard-ass role-playing
> before I'd allow something on that scale.
>

Role-playing? He didn't want to *beat* Lofwyr, he wanted to *beat down* Lofwyr,
and then *kill* him. And in no way should a PC do that. If anyone's going to
kill one of the Great Dragons, it'll be FASA. Not a player in a game. But that's
just my opinion.

> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> J. Keith Henry ("K", "NeoJudas")
> Hoosier Hacker House (www.hoosierhackerhouse.com)

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