Hello there. I'm sure there are plenty Crawl enthusiasts out there, besides me. =) Do you people find that Crawl is easier to win than most other roguelikes? ...
Sunflare
silvertree@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 3:16 am
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... Like me, for one. :) ... Hmm... Yeah, I do... I've only beaten it once by save-scumming, but I do tend to get farther than in others... ... Hmm... Well,...
Benjamin
benjamin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 5:25 am
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Hi everyone, Welcome to my little corner of listspace! I've set out platters of meat rations and tropical fruit, and there's plenty of potions of confusion for...
Heather Keesecker
dclistadmin@xxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 4:44 am
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... Gee, thanks! ... Um... I've currently got a backed-up Centaur Transmuter, saved right after I identified that Amulet of the Gourmand. Got a +0 robe, a...
Benjamin
benjamin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 5:57 am
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:16:10 -0600 "Sunflare" <silvertree@...> ... Well, I liked it enough to start a mailing list about it. :-) ... I'm terrible at...
Heather Keesecker
dclistadmin@xxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 5:02 am
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... What's your favorite solution to the food problem? Other than playing mummies, of course. (I don't play mummies, because they can't drink potions.) I've...
Heather Keesecker
dclistadmin@xxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 5:12 am
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... Well, for magic-induced hunger, my favorite is getting your skill high enough to eleminate the penalty. For general food worries, I like playing a Kobold...
Benjamin
benjamin@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 6:27 am
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... I've yet to succumb to the temptation of save-scumming, actually. It's beckoned me with its lurid call more than once, and I seem to be able to ignore it...
Sunflare
silvertree@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 5:15 am
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... I got one character to the orc mines, and he got his sorry butt mauled by a cyclops who had a liking to tossing boulders. I had full HP one turn, and the...
Sunflare
silvertree@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 5:17 am
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Hey there! I gotta say this is a great idea you had! a friend got me started on roguelikes with Nethack, then I discovered ADOM, and one fateful day I...
kerensky@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 20, 1999 5:43 am
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... Only eat food when starving, eat corpses whenever possible, stat increases --> strength, carry lots of food. I've only had one character die of starvation,...
John Fouhy
jfouhy@xxxx.xxx.xx.xxx
Jan 20, 1999 5:54 am
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... You must have started on the verge of an increase.. ... I find elves a little too flimsy.. They can't carry much, and they have so few hp that if you don't...
John Fouhy
jfouhy@xxxx.xxx.xx.xxx
Jan 20, 1999 6:00 am
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... It doesn't work anymore? Darn. ... Wait until I hit Starving? I'll try that. Heather Keesecker, List Owner and Queen of Stupid Crawl Deaths ...
Heather Keesecker
dclistadmin@xxxx.xxxx
Jan 21, 1999 1:39 pm
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... We're both wrong. It's "species." ... Wouldn't Richard Nixon be the God of Phone Bugs, not the God of Destruction? "RN sics the IRS on you!" (A group of...
Heather Keesecker
dclistadmin@xxxx.xxxx
Jan 21, 1999 1:37 pm
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:17:13 -0600 "Sunflare" <silvertree@...> ... I haven't seen any cyclops there yet. BTW, is it my imagination, or do orc wizards/orc...
Heather Keesecker
dclistadmin@xxxx.xxxx
Jan 21, 1999 1:51 pm
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... It's not your imagination. I noticed that too, which was actually rather good for me, because my wizard happened to have a high level in Axes and he tore...
Sunflare
silvertree@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 22, 1999 2:00 am
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... Currently, I'm trying to start up a grey elf ice elementalist. So far, Morabis has reached level 2 without much difficulty, despite the arrival of the...
corzican@xxxxxxx.xxxx...
corzican@xxxxxxx.xxxx...
Jan 23, 1999 5:32 pm
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On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Thomas Kilburn wrote: I have not received this welcoming post, so I'll just reply to this... ... I'm playing 12th level Troll Fighter...
Pasi Huttunen
Pasi.Huttunen@xxx.xxx
Jan 24, 1999 2:32 pm
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Hi folks: I'm currently running Alatar, the human wizard, who has recently become a worshipper of Sifa. Sifa apparently likes to have follwers cast spells and...
Boucher, Steve
Steve.Boucher@xxxx.xx...
Jan 26, 1999 9:27 pm
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... Drop the item on an appropriate altar and pray. HTH, John -- John Norris Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets jnorris@... ...
jnorris@xxxx.xxx
Jan 26, 1999 9:37 pm
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Sorry about this message. I just wanted to see if the list was still working. I haven't received a message in about 3 days....
Boucher, Steve
Steve.Boucher@xxxx.xx...
Feb 4, 1999 10:03 pm
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It appears that the list is working, but people are posting to r.g.r.m rather than here....
David Loewenstern
davel@xxxxxxxx.xx.xxx...
Feb 4, 1999 11:04 pm
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Hi, I'm here and the list seems to be working. I'm not much of a player. I'm juast an old-time nethacker, angbander and Adomer trying out a new game. I must...
Peter Crowell
crowell@xxxx.xxxxxxxx...
Feb 5, 1999 4:04 am
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I used to really like the "summon ratburger" 'cheat'. Someone telling me about the V command was also a 'good thing' (tm) My roguelike friends in NZ had a...
Rick Carson
carsonrick@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 19, 1999 1:02 am
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[Snip: thing about other roguelikes] I agree. I really like crawl, I play it more than all the others. I used to play Slash'em alot. But it lost the apeal...
James
bond225@xxxxxx.xxxx.x...
Feb 19, 1999 2:09 am
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... But of course, it has now been fixed :-) ... Game balance is easier to get right for the beginning game, because everyone is more/less the same. Things...
John Fouhy
jfouhy@xxxx.xxx.xx.xxx
Feb 19, 1999 6:18 am
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... That's rather difficult to do. You really aren't supposed to attack anything in the village (unless you're playing a chaotic, and even then, not until you...
David Loewenstern
davel@xxxxxxxx.xx.xxx...
Feb 19, 1999 4:26 pm
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... I don't mean to expose my ignorance, but what do scrolls do for Dragon or Troll skins?...
Boucher, Steve
Steve.Boucher@xxxx.xx...
Feb 19, 1999 4:31 pm
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... Nethack-style, if you read Enchant Armour on one, it'll turn into armour. Trollskin gives you no AC bonus, but troll-style regeneration, dragonskins do...
John Fouhy
jfouhy@xxxx.xxx.xx.xxx
Feb 20, 1999 2:32 am
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... That rather depends on whether you think it was a problem in the first place. That was one which could easily have been labeled a feature. ... As it...
