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Too Many Things To Think About...
Jul. 25th, 2007 09:56 pm...who in their right mind plays high level characters, again?
Completely lost track of my stats on several occasions on Sunday, including going into most fights with no idea of the number of hits I had left, and assuming a certain number without having any idea if I was referring to the right numbers or not. I dropped four times when I shouldn't, on one occasion claiming a broken limb and on another claiming I was dead, stood up once when I shouldn't have, and managed to shout "No effect...no, wait," on six or seven occasions, three of them within about thirty seconds of each other to the same call.
Screw this.
A certain amount of armour against this, but which doesn't count against that. Four armour all over...no, wait...not including the head, of course...no, wait...now I'm in twelves, now fourteens, now six because that's power...no, wait...that protection went down twenty minutes ago, putting me on...what am I on again? No, the weapon's protected, unless it's tuesday or the month has an R in it...no, wait...I got an order miracle and the month has a square in it so I'm alright. Ah yes, I'm dead. No, wait - I'm actually still walking around. I just thought my head was rolling around on the floor.
I willingly play a game I know to be extremely complicated, and I'm never going to say (or even think) it should be changed, because this is a problem that only manifests itself in a few members of the society, of which I am one. The net result is just another of the many reasons why playing high level characters just doesn't do it for me, which, as regular readers will know, I am wont to harp on about on a regular basis. Give me a low level character, with low level stats in a low level party, and I'll be infinitely happier - one set of numbers to call, one to ablate with, one (or maybe two) to deal with coming the other way, and I can concentrate on making my characterisation half-decent.
I'm a darts player. I can do that level of maths all day.
Completely lost track of my stats on several occasions on Sunday, including going into most fights with no idea of the number of hits I had left, and assuming a certain number without having any idea if I was referring to the right numbers or not. I dropped four times when I shouldn't, on one occasion claiming a broken limb and on another claiming I was dead, stood up once when I shouldn't have, and managed to shout "No effect...no, wait," on six or seven occasions, three of them within about thirty seconds of each other to the same call.
Screw this.
A certain amount of armour against this, but which doesn't count against that. Four armour all over...no, wait...not including the head, of course...no, wait...now I'm in twelves, now fourteens, now six because that's power...no, wait...that protection went down twenty minutes ago, putting me on...what am I on again? No, the weapon's protected, unless it's tuesday or the month has an R in it...no, wait...I got an order miracle and the month has a square in it so I'm alright. Ah yes, I'm dead. No, wait - I'm actually still walking around. I just thought my head was rolling around on the floor.
I willingly play a game I know to be extremely complicated, and I'm never going to say (or even think) it should be changed, because this is a problem that only manifests itself in a few members of the society, of which I am one. The net result is just another of the many reasons why playing high level characters just doesn't do it for me, which, as regular readers will know, I am wont to harp on about on a regular basis. Give me a low level character, with low level stats in a low level party, and I'll be infinitely happier - one set of numbers to call, one to ablate with, one (or maybe two) to deal with coming the other way, and I can concentrate on making my characterisation half-decent.
I'm a darts player. I can do that level of maths all day.
