Ye Olde Inn

by **The Road Warrior** » March 4th, 2016, 3:11 pm

Gold Bearer wrote:You're being snotty for no reason again.

That's never been my intention. I just don't agree with you.

We very rarely agree on what is and isn't balanced. That's not a problem, everyone has their own tastes. But if you suggest improvements to something I've created I do kind of feel obliged to respond.

Gold Bearer wrote:Fine, if you don't think attacking with max eight dice, NINE with a battle axe is a bit much and you think it's appropriate that this hero can use armour.

Your numbers are a bit off. His max numbers are

handaxe + both runes = 6 dice
battleaxe + both runes = 8 dice

He cannot wear armour!
The only defensive upgrade he can buy is the defence rune.
There is an artifact that allows him to re-roll one defence die and another that allows him to recover 4BP. These can be given out by the evil wizard as and when they choose and I would suggest the Trolltooth necklace is never given out accept within the accompanying questbook.

His max defence dice is 3. 2 base defence + Rune of defiance. As soon as he attacks he is down to 2 defence dice and that makes him very vulnerable to attacks from any monster.

As I said before, you are commenting on the altered version I used in the pbp game, not the Trollslayer that is presented here.

A big dice attack looks awesome, but it's only one attack, but a Hero with low defence dice, especially in a stong party, is a magnet for every attack the monsters can get in. I play with my own version of the Trollslayer, which is based partly on this one and who has that same high att/low def profile. He loses BP's at an alarming rate and needs every healing bonus going.

I think this type of character adds a real different dimension to HQ. in my opinion, his attack bonus's are sufficiently outwieghed by his defence deficiency.

by **Anderas** » March 5th, 2016, 7:06 am

Me too, i have the opinion that this character is quite playable; if not a bit difficult if you want to survive.
Almost always when i have seen him in game, he was at the brink of dying.

by **Gold Bearer** » March 5th, 2016, 7:23 am

The Road Warrior wrote:
Gold Bearer wrote:You're being snotty for no reason again.
That's never been my intention. I just don't agree with you.

We very rarely agree on what is and isn't balanced. That's not a problem, everyone has their own tastes. But if you suggest improvements to something I've created I do kind of feel obliged to respond.

Sorry it's just this...

The Road Warrior wrote:This character and the accompanying quest book were finished well over a year ago and I will not be changing it now. I do not even consider your suggestions to be an improvement. So I guess I leave it.

...doesn't read very well. I'm only making suggestions.

I forgot how different the standard version is. In that case I'd just take Sotiris' suggestion.