From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houca!lime!we13!plw
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Title: Re: Luck vs Skill
Article-I.D.: we13.279
Posted: Mon Jun 14 02:13:52 1982
Received: Tue Jun 15 00:55:30 1982

	Has anyone descended thru the 'Dungeons of Doom' picking up nothing
but food and gold? If so, have they found the coveted 'Amulet of Yendor' and
returned to the surface a Total Winner? I have found that one needs two things
to be guaranteed a Total Winner - a scroll of genocide (to do away with UHs)
and a Magic Arrow (+13000,+13000 more or less) to kill the other monsters.
	Skill, of course, is of the mental type in this game (it's inter-
active but not real time). Perhaps it is the skill of figuring out things the
Guide doesn't tell you. Various strategies suggested seem to depend upon a
certain amount of luck and don't work in every case (read game).