Originally posted by Afro Moose:

Troll and Draugr are 2 different enemies. I wouldn't say trolls are the best enemy to test out hypothetical melee situations with in the first place.

You really went and cherry picked the argument on this guy and thats not terribly fair. These are a lot of good points that can apply to 90% of the games' enemies.

I'm not the one that altered the example. Check the history. I said "against a monster that takes 20 to 30 hits to finish off" *before* Midas changed that to "Draugr".

At any rate, it's not my intent to argue good or bad play style. it's to point out that high stamina foods do not make you act more often like I've seen people claim, and the example Midas gave was still not an example of acting more often. It was an example of making use of bursts followed by longer lulls so the average rate of acting is still the same.

I have no interest in arguing the irrelevant points about how to make *use of* the rule, only *what the rule actually is*. So I won't bother with this thread any further. The fact remains that you don't act more often just because you have a higher cap.

It's like in D&D when people keep saying a higher initiative makes you faster. No it doesn't. You still act at the same frequency - once per round. It doesn't change the frequency of the phenomenon, it just phase shifts it sooner.