Question about Dodging and stuff...

[M.V.Tuynman]

At 00:54 19-10-98 +0500, you wrote:
>*** Quoting Powers and Perils Fantasy Rolepl... from a message to Longshot ***
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>     Yeah sometimes I allow dodge and attack but its really easy to abuse if
>you don't be careful :).  I remeber one guy went like 13 rounds of combat just
>dodging each other and not fighting.  Picture a sword fight with no hits.  And
>so it can drag on :).  Same on the magic here..:) oblivioon..ohhhh :)
>
Wow! 13 rounds just dodging each other, these guys must be really fanatic!
But it must be a little boresome as well. I guess they deserved it, they
won't repeat the trick too often. I hope.

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>     How extensive to you keep to the supernatural languages? Sometimes I'm
>very lax and other times its required for some things but to 'obtain' spells
>from languages is kinda weird at times for me to run.  Comments?
>
I am quite rigorous in using them. It gives the magic user great power at
less cost and quicker casting time (high EL effects within one phase), and
secondly, I like my magic user NPC's to be "specialists." I think it's kind
of cool to have a darkness-magician NPC, or a hell-powers-wizard NPC, for
example. The language and the power it conveys give me a clue about the
NPC's character and behavior. So in a way, I 'obtain' the spells from the
languages, by choosing roughly 80% of the spells the NPC knows, from one
language.

>     Use my encounter program lately? :)..
Yeah, last time I used it, it yielded a pack of wolves trying to feast upon
the players' horses while they were sleeping. That was fun. The program is
especially handy for city encounters, because I always tend to forget all
these questions "are the players physically intimidating? are they rich? are
they strangers to the town?" and so on. Last two sessions, I didn't use it.
At the moment, the players are in a very civilised little county of a very
civilised little kingdom, and the only encounters they have, are planned ones.

>     Been awhile since we typed to each other :)
Nice typing to you again!