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From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya)
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Subject: Enchanting armor/weapons in Hack (spoiler)
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 00:06:30 EST
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> By the way, in my best game, I enchanted my mace to +7.  On the next enchant
> weapon I read, it exploded.  Has anyone else had this happen?  Does it happen
> to armor?  Is it probabilistic or deterministic?
> 

If you enchant armor or weapons too much, they explode.  Weapons can be
enchanted up to +5 or +6, then there's a chance after that that the next
enchant weapon will cause it to explode.  The same is true for armor, except
I don't know exactly where it starts getting random.

			robert
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Robert Viduya
    Office of Computing Services
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332
    Phone:  (404) 894-4669

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