Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fisher.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!njt
From: njt@fisher.UUCP (Nathaniel Thurston)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Hack too hard?
Message-ID: <482@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 16:49:14 EST
Article-I.D.: fisher.482
Posted: Tue Jan 15 16:49:14 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:41:51 EST
References: <356@stcvax.UUCP> <205@masscomp.UUCP>
Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics
Lines: 12

> The crysknife is, grab it if you ever get a wand of wishing.

Contrary to popular belief, the crysknife is not the best weapon around.
Although the two-handed sword does only 1d6 to small monsters,
it does 1d12 + 1d6 + 1d6 to large ones,
and a heavy iron ball (gotten with a scroll of punishment or a wand of wishing)
does 1d26 to all monsters.

Therefore, wish for a heavy iron ball.  It is not all that heavy,
and it is much better.

	Nathaniel Thurston