Proposal: Gnoll should be "simple" race
Posted: Tuesday, 29th May 2018, 12:38
Hello,
currently Gnoll appears as an "intermediate" race. I suggest to move it to the "simple" column.
I understand that not being able to focus your most important skills is a problem for better players, but that's already something complete newbies may take a while to take advantage of. Moreover newbies tend to try lots of new things, and sometimes like a randart so much that they start training the corresponding skill from zero spreading their point to thinly.
So Gnolls are a great starting race: you can try anything you want (and Gnolls have no armor limitations), pick any spellbook and cast any new spell you find. If you find a nice randart you can switch to it. And so on: basically I think new player's strategy is naturally a good fit for Gnolls (and viceversa).
I'm not a great player (only finished twice: DrTm and GnFE, and got very far with GrEE) and yet I quickly mastered Gnoll and soon finished a game with it.
currently Gnoll appears as an "intermediate" race. I suggest to move it to the "simple" column.
I understand that not being able to focus your most important skills is a problem for better players, but that's already something complete newbies may take a while to take advantage of. Moreover newbies tend to try lots of new things, and sometimes like a randart so much that they start training the corresponding skill from zero spreading their point to thinly.
So Gnolls are a great starting race: you can try anything you want (and Gnolls have no armor limitations), pick any spellbook and cast any new spell you find. If you find a nice randart you can switch to it. And so on: basically I think new player's strategy is naturally a good fit for Gnolls (and viceversa).
I'm not a great player (only finished twice: DrTm and GnFE, and got very far with GrEE) and yet I quickly mastered Gnoll and soon finished a game with it.