Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site ur-laser.uucp Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!ur-laser!james From: james@ur-laser.uucp (James Chavin) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Neophyte hack player would like help Message-ID: <299@ur-laser.uucp> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 13:28:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ur-laser.299 Posted: Tue Aug 20 13:28:59 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 05:39:50 EDT Organization: Lab for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester Lines: 26 I have just starting playing Hack and I have several elementary questions. 1: Which type of charactor is the best to use? 2: What are gems for, and how does one use them? 3: How does one use wands? 4: Does a wizard have any magical abilities, and if so, how does one use them? 5: Sometimes my charctor seems to start in a closed system. In one or two rooms from which there is no exit. What is the procedure when there appears to be no further places to move to? 6: Is there a way by which one can know the properties of a ring or a potion before using it? Do the colors of the potion mean anything? Thanks in advance, James Chavin Laboratory for Laser Energetics University of Rochester 250 East River Road Rochester, New York 14623 {allegra,seismo} !rochester!ur-laser!james