Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site whuxlm.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!whuxlm!wws From: wws@whuxlm.UUCP (Stoll H William) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: Re: Middle-Dungeon Strategies Message-ID: <599@whuxlm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 15:34:05 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxlm.599 Posted: Wed Oct 17 15:34:05 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:07:34 EDT References: <1345@pucc-h> <220@wjvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 21 > ... > > 2. Staves of cold, fire, and lightning: Next to useless. Sure, they > do lots of damage when they hit, which is almost never. (At least on > our system. Different random generator, perhaps?) I always drop these > staffs when I identify them... > > "Trivia is important." Ron Christian > (syntax bug) Watkins-Johnson Co. > San Jose, Calif. > (...ios!wjvax!ron) Staves of fire are quite effective against centaurs for some reason. I can't take credit for the discovery -- it was included in a big "Rogue Manual" someone posted awhile back. Does anyone know of a monster (or monsters) against which the staff of cold is effective? Also I seem to have better luck against Rattlesnakes when they are standing in a doorway. Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws