KoboldLord wrote:Generally speaking, species is a much smaller contributor to success than background. Backgrounds range from wildly overpowered to chaos knight, while species tend to range from vanilla to quirky. If you pick a power background suitable for your species and learn the quirks of your species' gameplay, you should do all right. Pick a wretched background and even picking one of the stronger species won't really compensate.
Really? I've always heard the exact opposite. The background is simply some items and skills, while racial mutations and stats are things that can never be changed.
As for melee-damagers, I don't think Octopodes are so bad. Have you tried an OpMo of Kiku? It works surprisingly well, although you will have to branch out into magic considerably past the Lair.
As for species though, I was thinking... perhaps we could compile a tier list of overall species strength. We would have to look at all aspects including but not limited to HP, mana, stats, mutations and intrinsics, aptitudes, hunger, and religious, spellcasting, and equipment restrictions. To balance out the fact that different races are good in different roles, we could also factor in such things as the strength of a race's particular niche relative to the niches of other races, e.g. Deep Elves' niche is magic and Ghouls' niche is unarmed melee, but DEFE is generally stronger than GhMo so that would be an argument for putting Deep Elves in a higher tier than Ghouls, despite GHFE probably being more successful overall than DEMo (because those are irrelevant, non-niche combos). Also we would factor in general game-progression power curves, such as the difference between that of that of the Troll and that of the Octopode. I think this would be a really interesting idea!
Posted: Sunday, 11th March 2012, 18:14