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Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation...

From	phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject	Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation...
Date	2026-04-15 10:29 -0600
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> the main tactic was 'create a
> party, pool the gold and starter gear to one guy, delete the other
> characters, create new characters, repeat. Then sell all the extra
> gear to get enough weapons that your one guy has a chance of surviving
> combat with the first few goblins, and then do it all over again until
> the rest of the party is similarly equipped.' That's not mastering the
> mechanics; that's working around them.

This is a very big problem for RPGs. Phantasie suffers from this and so 
does Wizardry: the five ordeals. It's possible, but frankly, I consider 
it cheating and abstain. However, since I run a number of parties in 
Wizardry: the five ordeals, I consider it reasonable to restock the 
power items such as padded leather and sword of striking to the shop via 
the available options in the setting from time to time for new incoming 
parties. Otherwise, my power items would just be sitting somewhere near 
the bottom of the dungeon possessed by an immobile and irrelevant party, 
or even in some cases vaporized when one of these irrelevant parties is 
purged during a roster sweep.

I think they should fix the problem, at least acknowledge that it 
exists. Maybe it's a difficult thing to deal with, I guess. The problem 
seems to be is that old parties lose their relevance and all the gold 
spent on them is now wasted, so there has to be some kind of influx of 
new gold. However, I know I've seen at least one model RPG where new 
characters start without gold.

-- 
Pharaoh was so pleased with Hadad that he gave him a
sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, in marriage.
The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath,
whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There
Genubath lived with Pharaoh’s own children.

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Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-11 19:56 -0400
  Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Rin Stowleigh <nospam@nothanks.com> - 2026-04-11 21:09 -0400
    Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-04-21 19:10 +0000
      Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Rin Stowleigh <nospam@nothanks.com> - 2026-04-21 20:26 -0400
        Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-04-24 04:30 +0000
  Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2026-04-12 09:18 -0700
  Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2026-04-12 13:47 -0400
    Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-12 22:08 -0400
      Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2026-04-13 14:11 -0400
        Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-13 15:03 -0400
        Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2026-04-14 06:24 -0700
          Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-14 11:29 -0400
            Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2026-04-14 17:11 -0700
              Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-04-15 11:58 -0400
                Re: Posting with the greatest of trepidation... phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-04-15 10:29 -0600
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