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JulesMrshn@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/17/99 10:14:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
> matroy@abacom.com writes:
>
> I utterly fail to see your point.
> >>
>
> Which is why you are argueing. Run a game you have played in your mind. Now
> think about some of the encounters. What if all of the villians had attacked
> your tank mercilessly, and had been in numbers. What if all of the
> stronghold your were fighting in heard you and came running in. What if that
> big wizard used his finger of death spell. What if all the villians thought
> like PCs. You can see now how the level and the turn over rate of the game
> would increase.
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In any of those situations, the character who used brains with no brawn would
have fallen as quickly. If both characters were played with equal intelligence
and ingenuity (as is assumed here, because being forced to act with more thought
doesn't mean that you wouldn't have anyway), what would kill the more powerful
would smash the less powerful into itty-bitty pieces. What we are not assuming is
that having a powerful character turns the player into a moron.
Thx,
Alaric

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JulesMrshn@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 4/17/99 10:14:57 PM Central Daylight
Time,
matroy@abacom.com writes:
<<
 I utterly fail to see your point.
 >>
Which is why you are argueing.  Run a game you have played in your
mind.  Now
think about some of the encounters.  What if all of the villians
had attacked
your tank mercilessly, and had been in numbers.  What if all of
the
stronghold your were fighting in heard you and came running in. What
if that
big wizard used his finger of death spell.  What if all the villians
thought
like PCs. You can see now how the level and the turn over rate of the
game
would increase.
************************************************** *************************
In any of those situations, the character who used brains with no brawn
would have fallen as quickly. If both characters were played with equal
intelligence and ingenuity (as is assumed here, because being forced to
act with more thought doesn't mean that you wouldn't have anyway), what
would kill the more powerful would smash the less powerful into itty-bitty
pieces. What we are not assuming is that having a powerful character
turns the player into a moron.
Thx,
   Alaric

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