Re: [HOE] Math question

[glock <glockwork@tardhauze.org>]

At 8:22 AM -0700 10/5/02, Matt Crawford wrote:
>> And you can (sort of) gloss this -- as you are learning a skill, you pass
>> through stages where you are expanding your abilities and other stages
>> where you are refining them. During expansions, you are more likely to
>> make catastrophic errors. During refinement periods, you are less likely
>> to make catastrophic errors. This is modelled by the odd-even progression
>> of raising an aptitude.
>
>Ugh, tell me about it.  Tired of almost always getting one action
>card, I wanted to raise my DL character's Quickness from 2d4 to 4d4.
>Unfortunately, I was stuck at the 3d4 intermediate level for an
>entire 3- or 4-session adventure.  "Don't bother me, I'm communing
>with the spirits again.  Zzzzz."  (That character had three deuces
>during generation.)

  4d4 quickness is great fun!
  i had a blessed with 4d4 quickness, he seemed to get great rolls more
often than not...d4's are my favorite die type, they seem to like me

  oh, and hi- I've been lurking for a while.  I'm Steven Baxter, my Swords
o' Doom used to be on the PEG site. I just started playing HoE again after
a couple year break.  I'm gonna be sticking up a bunch of content on our
web page soon, i'll send up a flare when it's ready to roll.

  - bax