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From: carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Hack status line  "Str 18/96"  --  What is a "flail"
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 19:35:05 EDT
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In article <> boozer@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Boozer) writes:
>What does the 96 in "Str 18/96" mean on the hack status line?
>What is a "flail"?     I have one.  What do I do with it?  What is it?

"Str 18/96".  That sounds like AD&D to me.  In Advanced Dungeons and Dragons,
which Rogue and Hack are based upon, statistics are Strength, Intelligence,
Wisdom, Dexterity, Constitution, and Charisma.  They all run from 3 to 18.
However, if you are a fighter (in AD&D, I don't play hack until I can get
it to compile here), then you can have exceptional strength, which is from
1 to 100, or, as the percentile dice are 0 to 9, 01 to 00.  18/00 is the
highest possible strength in AD&D without magical enhancement (like girdles
of giant strength).  I suggest drinking many potions of gain strength to
go up to exceptional strength (it does that in rogue 3.6.1) if you don't
start out that way.
  I think a flail is a nasty weapon that you flail around and hurt people
with, don't have the PHB within reach here.  Try looking in the Player's
Handbook from TSR.
						Carl Greenberg
						AD&D Player