Powerful mage and game rules, [Topic spllit by Baronius] Options

[Baronius]

I understand what he's saying. I was surprised by it too, the first time I fought him. You're expecting a powerful mage, not a physical powerhouse, and yet none of your fighters can deal any serious damage.

I have never understood this type of approach. Why can't a powerful mage have very powerful "physical" resistances via her powerful magic and knowledge? Should every wizard be protected by 9 golems so no one can reach her? Because without resistances, wizards could be killed very easily, considering their low natural hit points and physical defense.

[matti]

Heh, Ustrain's resistances doesn't bother me much, it's he's summons who really bothers me (completely inadeqate, who he is? SPOILER!

prince of undead?

this kind of summons and the quantity of them should be restricted imo for the most powerful foes. Overall fight with him is pretty mediocre (his summons aside, they are and always will be a really bad mofos, but they're should not be there imho) he's somewhat like a SPOILER!

Kruin 2

for me.



Did the fact that I've beaten him with all his summons and resistances prove that my tactical skills are good? No. It's only prove that I played the mod with IA installed.


And I must say, beaing a simple player, that it's really funny when people who hit and running, casting off screen, false-talking and such, when all that is blocked, they suddenly starts whining about the "rules".

[Sikret]

Heh, Ustrain's resistances doesn't bother me much, it's he's summons who really bothers me (completely inadeqate, who he is? SPOILER!

prince of undead?

this kind of summons and the quantity of them should be restricted imo for the most powerful foes. Overall fight with him is pretty mediocre (his summons aside, they are and always will be a really bad mofos, but they're should not be there imho) he's somewhat like a SPOILER!

Kruin 2

for me.

When I was creating this encounter for ToD back in December 2007, we had very little time to think on the nature of allies Ustrain should have, because Valiant wanted to release the mod as a christmas gift and I had to complete its design rather quickly. Initially, I had three ideas for his summons and wanted to decide between them:

1- Undead creatures
2- A couple of dragons
3- Golems

Valiant informed me that he didn't want to add new dragons to the game; so, we were left with golems and the undead. I finally decided to go for undead creatures under the time pressure we had to finish the component. Perhaps, using golems was a better choice, perhaps not, I'm not sure (both can be justified from a role playing point of view).

All in all, if Valiant wants to change the nature of Ustrain's allies, we can work on it for the next version of ToD. I don't have any strict opinion on this matter.