Questions..

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

Scott Adams wrote:
>
> At 12:26 AM 2/16/00 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >I think we have only one trained MEL, and all MEP gain from either
> >Wizard or Shaman would get thrown together on one pile. We never even
> >considered other options.
>
> So you agree that the casting ability bonus per increase is just one time like
> me?
> Ie if person has shaman and wizard for sake of simplicity MEL4 both.
> Then becomes MEL5 in shaman and gains say 20 More mana...that's fine
> but if Wizard goes to MEL5 then I don't see ANOTHER 20 on top of it..seems a
> bit
> huge in the end :)

Well... it does seem huge, but I think we (=Mathijs's group) keep just
one MEL (as I tried to say in my original mail, but apparantly failed to
:-)) for Wizard and Shaman together. So then it doesn't matter what
spell you cast, your MEP gain goes into the one trained MEL. So, the
problem does not really arise. There are just more spells to choose
from. MELs for innate stuff are separate, though.
If you keep separate MELs, .... well, that seems a bit strange to me
anyway. There are no separate CELs for different weapons, either. But I
guess you would have to limit the mana gain slightly. Or keep separate
mana for Wizard and Shaman, i.e., separate the two completely.

>
> >I have ported Wout's original treasure generator to Linux, but its code
> >is hell, as Wout will confirm (my port was only in the interface, so it
> >was doable). I am interested in any thoughts you might have on how to
> >create such a thing in a 'neat' fashion. I am less interested in a
> >windows exe file. I'm very interested in anything anyone has typed op
> >from book 3 and 4, since we are now seriously considering striving for a
> >paper-less P&P, meaning computer based sheets, books and DM tools.
>
> As to clean code not sure I might work on my own quick and dirty one like the
> encounter
> program .... Doubt it'll be windoze probably dos based like the others
> (runnable in windoze).

I'm more concerned about running it on Linux. I still havn't gotten
round to trying to get that DOS emulator to work... Is there anything in
particular you would like to do differently w.r.t. Wout's program
(interface, results, etc.)?

> As to book 4 I have alot of that type dup in my own shorthand :)...messy
> but if
> you want it
> email me longshot at darktech.org and I'll send it...just sent it to wout if he
> thinks its worth
> it he can put it on the site...but its mianly for my use so I figure if anyone
> can get some use
> of it..all the better :).  Book 3 I have some creatures (that I use at the
> time
> ) into a growing
> monster file so i can reference those monsters later if need be...about all i
> have from 3.
> Its probably about 12 monsters/animals so far though.

I think Wout told me about this. I'll get it from him, then.

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Matijs van Zuijlen
mzuijlen at integral.nl