New Game of Death: Battle Royale of the GAWDS

[Number47]

So far, I only have some ideas about who I think isn't going to win. Maybe you could just group us into what you consider "strong" and "weak" choices, for just idle speculation's purpose. My opinion is that darn near anybody is up for a body bag as long as certain people still have a christmas twenty left. I also think certain very strong character will be exceptionally weak against Maturak and can only win if someone else kills Maturak for them.

If Vraketh's player is being hard to reach, that means we have a wait on our hands until next action is posted, doesn't it? Damn.

 

[Victim]

It would be amusing to see your opinions.

Based on events so far, I think I can make some decent threat estimations. However, it's hard to accurately assess someone's abilities. If character A launches a full attack on B and misses with everything on decent rolls, does that mean that A has a sucky attack bonus or B has a great AC? But, based on apparent gear and such, it should still be possible to come up with something. So I'd have to agree with Number47 about the strong and weak brackets.

Still, I'd imagine that most characters haven't revealed the full extent of their abilities. You can pull pretty amusing tricks with low end items and spells.

I think Martok is in a good position. I wonder how many instant death spells he's saving up. I almost get the feeling that he's just toying with Jade while he waits to see who's dangerous.

I'm not so sure about Jarrod's abilities. It seems like a Greater Dispeling would put him in his place, and he's exposing himself to attacks.

Maturak was designed to be the ANTI-smackdown character. I looked up the old smacks and the IC ones and tried to negate as many of them as possible. It's not exactly the best design philosophy, in my opinion, but I think making a character that is flying around in an AMF was a pretty neat idea. Too bad I messed up fighting Ancryx. I guess we'll see if he was a good idea or not.

I think Dabbil's versatility makes him pretty decent. That and huge reach.

If Therron is able to escape from the force cage, then he's in good shape. He'd come in fresh with some unknown defenses, and I bet he could kill most characters in the game with a successful charge attack. However, having a crippled cohort might slow him down some.

Yasumoto is either really dangerous, or sucky. I'd guess really dangerous, since I'm assuming he's got big Sneak Attacks to go with his Blinking. Sure, he only dealt 67 damage in 2 rounds. But add in another 7d6 per hit - 42d6 - and we're talking about more than 200 damage. And he blinked out on a few of his attacks.

Fingolfin and Ancryx seem like a nasty team that can do damage while risking little. Keep an eye on them.

 

[clockworkjoe]

Ok, I'll just list who I think is in a strong, moderate, and weak position currently.

Strong (able to dominate game, or at least survive a long time, or not seriously threatened currently): Maturak, Martok, Dabbil, Macallan, Jarrod, Vraketh, Therron, Ancryx

Moderate (not about to die, but not currently able to dominate game) Norman, Yasumoto, Sepiroth, Landerin, Harsel

Weak (as moderate but seriously threatened by other players): Hawkeye, Fingolfin, Jade

 

[reapersaurus]

Would anyone mind If I gave my thoughts about who is likely to win? I would base my observations on past actions and I won't reveal any secret info.

I for one would be very interested.
Email me if ya want.

edit: oops. never mind if that post is what you were thinking...

 

[Saepiroth]

where do you place Icitrik then? moderate with my horribly assembled mishmash of design philosophies or upstairs with the big boys?

but everyone should remember not to discount anyone still alive. with the Rambo and Ultimate BBG special events still available to occur at any moment, the tide of the game can change drastically.

Hawkeye-->Rambo would be comedy++.

 

[Victim]

What are those special events?

 

[clockworkjoe]

Oops, missed Icitrik. He's in the moderate category.

 

[Saepiroth]

What are those special events?

the wind, the golem, the kobolds, etc.

i remember he outlined a lot of them somewhere. possibly on SA, maybe here. maybe the first post. here's two i think remember...

Rambo; one character gets fully restored to the condition they were in upon entering the match: all items restored, all conditions reset, all spell slots refilled... and also becomes worth 2x normal points to kill.

Ultimate BBG; immense, galvanizingly powerful monster appears on the battlefield. all characters say "oh".

 

[reapersaurus]

i remember he outlined a lot of them somewhere. possibly on SA, maybe here. maybe the first post. here's two i think remember...

That must have been on SA.

 

[clockworkjoe]

the wind, the golem, the kobolds, etc.

i remember he outlined a lot of them somewhere. possibly on SA, maybe here. maybe the first post. here's two i think remember...

Rambo; one character gets fully restored to the condition they were in upon entering the match: all items restored, all conditions reset, all spell slots refilled... and also becomes worth 2x normal points to kill.

Ultimate BBG; immense, galvanizingly powerful monster appears on the battlefield. all characters say "oh".

the wind, golems, kobolds are all events, but I don't remember writing anything about a rambo or BBEG event.