Message 10: Wed May 29 18:06:23 (read)
From: eccles [To: anthony caligari]
I am ready for you, Uktena !

Message 2: Thu May 30 13:05:39 (read)
From: caligari [To: eccles]
You continue to express a bit of disappointment that we cut through
some enemies like butter in the Wolfie game.
 
In thinking about it I realized that if we were more evenly matched we'd
be sunk... We have to pump Rage in every *round* to keep up with the
volume or speed of the opponents. If we don't have rage to use we are
stuffed from that point onwards. If the battles went more than a round
or two, we'd be chewing up Rage at an unsustainable rate very rapidly.
If the enemies are resilient or there are a lot of them, this is already
an issue. With 6 rage I feel really vulnrable to the combat system in
this regard, and I pushed it up from 4 or 5 specificially because it
seems impossible to be in combat without rage... Now I'm feeling that
I must raise it to 7 for the same reasons... If the opponents are even
tougher...
 
And of course a lot of this gets back to the basic system dynamic, which

Message 1: Thu May 30 13:05:39 (read)
From: caligari [To: eccles]
seems to be "you win and the opponent is mush," or "you loose and you
are out of the combat entirely". And the win or loss can be at the
initiative point (the pressure to raise Wits and Alertness is very
real and constant) and/or the dodge and/or the soak roll. To continue
to exist in this sort of environment, all of us must bulk up as though
we were front-line fighters... My 3 str is insufficient to take down
opponents cleanly... You have to have 4 dex, sta, combat skills, at least,
to be "in the game" and not "on the floor" most of the time...
 
I'm not complaining about this. I guess I'm just trying to say that perhaps
our "extreme" nature is a direct result of this - its what we feel we
must do to survive. We have to win and win fast, or we are toast. Every
time.