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<blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 7261391" data-attributes="member: 46713"><p>After completing 'The Legacy of Vashna' and the follow-up 'The Deathlord of Ixia', I'm now ready to begin 'Dawn of the Dragons' (all from Joe Dever's Lone Wolf series of game books).</p><p></p><p>'The Deathlord of Ixia' really annoyed me because of the flawed balancing: There doesn't appear to be any way to avoid fighting (and defeating) a Demon Lord you've encountered in a previous book. Only now his Combat Strength is 55 and his Endurance at 60. (For the sake of comparison, someone starting with this book has a Combat Strength of 25-34 and Endurance 30-39). So, even for a fully equipped veteran who made it through all of the preceding 16 books alive, it's a ridiculously tough fight (combat is resolved using a table; you roll a d10 and determine the result of an attack by checking the column that matches the difference between your and the opponent's combat strength. Note, that the table only has columns from -10 to +10 ...). Oh, and as usual there's plenty of 'save or die' encounters and the 'end boss' even has combat strength 60 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p>So, yeah, I guess, I believe that one of the reviewers on Amazon hasn't succeeded after 50 attempts in that final fight.</p><p></p><p>The writing and the storyline are really good, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jhaelen, post: 7261391, member: 46713"] After completing 'The Legacy of Vashna' and the follow-up 'The Deathlord of Ixia', I'm now ready to begin 'Dawn of the Dragons' (all from Joe Dever's Lone Wolf series of game books). 'The Deathlord of Ixia' really annoyed me because of the flawed balancing: There doesn't appear to be any way to avoid fighting (and defeating) a Demon Lord you've encountered in a previous book. Only now his Combat Strength is 55 and his Endurance at 60. (For the sake of comparison, someone starting with this book has a Combat Strength of 25-34 and Endurance 30-39). So, even for a fully equipped veteran who made it through all of the preceding 16 books alive, it's a ridiculously tough fight (combat is resolved using a table; you roll a d10 and determine the result of an attack by checking the column that matches the difference between your and the opponent's combat strength. Note, that the table only has columns from -10 to +10 ...). Oh, and as usual there's plenty of 'save or die' encounters and the 'end boss' even has combat strength 60 :( So, yeah, I guess, I believe that one of the reviewers on Amazon hasn't succeeded after 50 attempts in that final fight. The writing and the storyline are really good, though. [/QUOTE]
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