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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: advice on 5.3 meanies (spoilers)
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Date: Thu, 27-Dec-84 16:50:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 27 16:50:00 1984
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Generally your advice was good.  I have, however, met Griffons,
Jabberwocks and Dragons a fair amount.  (Mostly in our cheat rogue,
but also in the real one.)

The G, is tough.  But if you could kill unicorns easily enough then
the griffen will be about as easy.  The same suggestions hold for these
as for the Unicorns.  Hit until about dead, run away, then hit again.
Repeat until either one of you is dead.

The J is again the same level of difficulty as the G.  (by the time
you meet it that is.  You will have gained levels.  The first J should
be as tough as the first G.)

The D is different as it can flame you (much more effectively than
those people flaming Jeff S....)  You can be flamed through walls, 
around corners, by flames bouncing off the wall behind you, or
even while standing on a scroll of scare monster.  All you can do is
stand there and take the flames and hit back.  He won't always flame,
but will sometimes use his claws.  But if you try to run, he will
stop every couple of moves to flame you.

The toughest situation I ever had was in real rogue.  I had this
character that had lived down to around the 20'th level in level
1 armor and his original mace.  (Maybe it was deeper, I think I 
had killed some griffons/unicorns in that getup).  This guy was
lucky basically.  By the 25'th level I had good armor and a good
weapon.  I had been killing dragons and jabberwocks right and left.
But I got this combination of a medusa and a phantom in the same room.
I assumed that I would live through it, so held down a direction
key and let things happen randomly.  Didn't work and I died.  Sigh.


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