From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!emrath Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Title: Re: SPOILER - wand of striking - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1457 Posted: Fri Feb 11 20:27:13 1983 Received: Sun Feb 13 04:21:19 1983 #R:tekid:-85900:uiucdcs:9500121:000:273 uiucdcs!emrath Feb 11 18:39:00 1983 What I've seen is that when you zap a wand of striking, the number of charges goes down by 2 rather than 1. If the wand initially has an odd number of charges, it is good forever. Even so, the wand seems to be of such little value that I usually end up dropping it anyway.