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el_kalkylus · 09-04-2002, 08:57 AM

I think it's worth it. If you don't spend alot of time to train the magic skills, that hybrid will have very low skills all the time. And to get better in magic, means you gotta skip fighting some which makes your fighting skills be lower than you would want to.

The intelligence requirement can be good if you want powercast. I always want powercast for my spell-casting characters, besides intelligence is a controlling attribute to most magic skills. Either I want little magic with lot of fighting skills or lots of magic and decent fighting skills for hybrids. With lots of magic, I want powercast. I really liked my spell-casting staff-wielding samurai before for example.

So it all depends if you are gonna train your character's magic skills or not. If you train skills, you almost don't have to bother about stats at all. (note the almost)

[ 09-04-2002, 09:03 AM: Message edited by: el_kalkylus ]

09-04-2002, 08:57 AM	#2
el_kalkylus Drizzt Do'Urden Join Date: March 3, 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden Age: 45 Posts: 669	I think it's worth it. If you don't spend alot of time to train the magic skills, that hybrid will have very low skills all the time. And to get better in magic, means you gotta skip fighting some which makes your fighting skills be lower than you would want to. The intelligence requirement can be good if you want powercast. I always want powercast for my spell-casting characters, besides intelligence is a controlling attribute to most magic skills. Either I want little magic with lot of fighting skills or lots of magic and decent fighting skills for hybrids. With lots of magic, I want powercast. I really liked my spell-casting staff-wielding samurai before for example. So it all depends if you are gonna train your character's magic skills or not. If you train skills, you almost don't have to bother about stats at all. (note the almost) [ 09-04-2002, 09:03 AM: Message edited by: el_kalkylus ] __________________ Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.