Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!alex From: alex@sdcsvax.UUCP (Alex Pournelle) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: Re: Stupid srogue 2.0 bug carried over from 5.3 Message-ID: <720@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 19:03:21 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.720 Posted: Wed Mar 6 19:03:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 05:02:33 EST References: <706@sdcsvax.UUCP> <1062@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: UC San Diego; freelance writer Lines: 52 Either our version of srogue 2.0 is buggy, or I'm just too slow. I tried to stop the "f" command with alternate hits of theand keys, but to no avail. Then, there was the time that got me to #8 on the list, with really awesome armor; shame that I only had 80 hits......Theives are really great with 26 DEX (28 with the 2 added DEX rings; AC -12 with the protection rings). Shame that they're not really proof against acid and ice blasts, or I'd prolly be a "total winner". I didn't make the mistake this time of using "f" or underestimating monsters. I also discovered some very interesting things about P (black pudding)s. If you're a good thief and can set traps, set a trapdoor. Goodbye Ps! If you do this, though, the little forest creatures (joke, joke) may take away all the neat treasures that were waiting for you. I guess the moral is not to bother Ps if you can help it. High DEX is great--lets you ripoff anything. Shame that confuse monsters doesn't work on the quartermaster; I only got one itme from him at a time. I discovered also how to rip off trading posts, at least kind of. If you're up to full # of items (and who isn't?) you can buy an item and not actually get it, then you can drop something useless and not use up another transaction. Then you can decide whether or not to actually pick up the first item and use up your $. Note that this DOES use up a single transaction, but NOT a bunch of $ on really useless magic. Has anyone found a correlation between cursedness and price in a trading post? I usually mark my items with what their price would have been in a 'post. Some of them he won't buy (which to me means cursed). The thing I always wish for is an enchant scorll, since my armour is NEVER good enough. Even +12 plate will still get caught by the really awful baddies' blasts. (se above). DSEX 26 and protections rings will make you pretty proof against other baddies; DEX 26 let me rip off the lesser daemons. Does anyone know what a blessed scroll of scare mosnters does? Can you pick it up again? I see where the cursed type can't even be picked up--even more of a reason for you Never to pick up scare monster scrolls until you're done with that level. There isn't any way to uncurse them, either, as far as I can tell (unless there's a wand of remove curse). What does a blessed scroll of protect do? Protect everything in your pack? A blessed scroll of remove curse does just that. What about a blessed wand of teleport away? Kill the baddie? (Gee, if it worked on the quartermaster that'd be baaaad news. I wonder how many points you'd get for killing him?) Alex