Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!proper!carl From: carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: Hack status line "Str 18/96" -- What is a "flail" Message-ID: <311@proper.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 19:35:05 EDT Article-I.D.: proper.311 Posted: Thu Sep 19 19:35:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 05:33:35 EDT References: <> Reply-To: carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg) Distribution: net Organization: Lunatic Laboratories Unltd. Lines: 19 Summary: 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