Re: hps of classes (class differences)

[Mark Wedel <master@rahul.net>]

 This is a followup of several messages.

 Barbarians have a -8 int, if I remember correctly.  This makes their natural
max 12.

 No class has as advantage in casting cleric spells.  The docs used to say
that only priests/clerics get a wisdom bonus, but this is not true.
All classes are treated equally in terms of casting the spell.

 Killing a grim reaper (being a non spell caster) can be done in many
ways.  Any of the various wands, rods, horns that cast fire will do.  Also,
many of the artifact weapons have attacks that is not physical (ie, fire,
weaponmagic, etc), and this will also do grimreapers in.

 I found that as a low-level wizard, depending on what your spell(s) are,
it can be relatively easy.  If you have something like burning hands, you
wander into the newby tower, and roast about 10 monsters per spell.  After
each spell, you need to retreat and re-gain spellpoints, but it was
not that difficult.  You do need to upgrade to better armor.

 Here is a question:  Do any characters prefer wearing low protection
armour?  I almost always ahve my characters wear plate or dragon mail if
they ahve the chance.  I tried running a priest that wore lighter armour,
but the armour value itself was low enough, that when I finally upgarde
to better (I think I found +4 plate one time), that it made a tremendous
difference.  Have 50%+ of damage absorbed compared to 30% is really
major.  If I need to regenerate spellpoints, I find a safe place, and just
take off my armour.  I am just curious if other players have used
light weight armor and how it worked out..

 I do think charisma can make it difficult for ugly characters to advance.
I had a moderate level barbarian (10 or so), but it was extremely difficult
for him to improve his abilities because the potions were so expensive
to him (he had around a 12 charisma).  And with a low intelligence, I
think his spell points were around 10, making casting the charisma spell
impossible (I think the only spell he actually had was burning hands).

 Perhaps having scrolls of charisma would help out the problem.  Thus, even
the stupid charcters could benefit.  I don't like the idea of removing
price adjustments based on charisma, because that is almost the only
thing charisma is used for (I think spotting runes is the other).

 --Mark