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From: ccrdan@ucdavis.UUCP (Dan Gold)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Suggested hack modifications (semi-spoiler...)
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 17:49:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 17:49:39 1985
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> 1) I really don't like the fact that a pickaxe can't dig into a shop wall.
> After all, what's the fun of playing a wimpy speleologist if you can't
> swindle the shopkeepers.  It's bad enough that the shopkeepers won't allow
> pickaxes inside (which is understandable), but even if you do figure a way to
> sneak them in past the shopkeeper, and bang the wall, you get a message like
> "This wall seems to be too hard."  (Which makes me wonder why the shopkeepers
> even bother checking in the first place.)

A "wimpy" speleologist can become a HIGH-scoring character if he manages to
find the common wand of polymorph and uses a little smarts.  

Dan Gold

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