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anyone have opinions, discoveries, comments, etc. on 3.4.1? i'm loving that wizards always have an attack spellbook in their starting equipment now; the new...
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... New effect of newt corpses? -- Kurt Grossman KurtGr@... ICQ: 5282341 YM: KurtGro AIM: KurtG1000 http://www.geocities.com/kurtgro "Can't talk to a...
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... "you feel a mild buzz"--gives you a few pw, can up your max by one....
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... Only had a few hours gaming time so far, but I like. ... I thouht Force Bolt was standard in 3.4.0, too? Maybe even earlier. ... Yes, very useful at low...
Jane Williams
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... i didn't think so--i played wizards for a while in 3.4.0 (even got my hands on the amulet with one, but got killed by rodney #17 or something...grr) and...
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I never thought nicking stuff from shops hidden in containers was a bug. I mean we've all done it in real life, whoops. Thanks for the replies to my largely...
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... Aw come on. Share some names and deaths with us. -Justin...
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i ran across this on dl 1, just having begun a game and quaffing an unidentified potion of booze: "...You pass out." "You hear someone cursing shoplifters." ...
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Far too many to mention. Overindulgance of food is my pet hate. 'If I can just get that last piece of black dragon down', 'I'll never do that again', 'does it ...
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... Your magical power just went up. "Eye of newt..." __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience ...
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... last ... you do know that casting spells will make you hungry fast, including using ctrl-t teleport as a non-spellcaster? i use this a lot when i'm trying...
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Thanks for the tips Jane and phenononononom. Yes those Lichs are a problem and should rightly be genocided. Personally I always go for the R's first in the...
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... It's never happened to me (never got that far!) but I've heard of it happening to others. I believe it can be cured by fire. ...
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... you're welcome! ... rust monsters aren't so bad if you see them coming--throw daggers/darts/mjollnir/whatever, use attack spells, or zap a wand. if you...
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Hey Frosty are you still out there? Drop me a line. I have not visited here in a long while. Still playing nethack, though. I have lately been avoiding the...
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Hello all, Can any one help me please? I cannot work out the praying ie when, how often and so on! I try praying around every 500 turns and the result seems...
Ian
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... you're right, it's not very random. pray less. there is what is called a 'prayer timeout': every time you pray successfully, your prayer timeout goes up to...
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I almost never pray unless: My enlightment list says I can safely pray or... I am lawful, or.... I am about to die Normally I play as a neutral human valkyrie...
Wendy D
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I did not know that you could get an arty farty weapon by killing things and offering them!!! Guess what I am going to do now? Ian the looney Wizard....
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To me it's a must to sacrifice everything in sight at th shopping mall, in the dwarven halls. It's quite hard time if you're not neutral, since I remember that...
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Now own one **** of a 'pig sticker' its magic too!!! Still cant work out the praying thing but enjoying the mayhem and destruction all the same. Another...
Ian
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... Stops floating eyes from paralysing you, among other things :) __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet...
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... mall, in ... since I ... priest ... artifacts ... quaranteed ... it might ... wishing ... it sounds to me like you're not playing vanilla nethack; there...
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... it keeps you from getting frozen by floating eyes, gelatinous cubes, etc.; insanely useful, far more that you would guess, because it protects you from...
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Personally I like an amulet of reflection. Or a silver shield. The floating eye's gaze freezes it. Or something. Very Zen. Works against wand of death. ... ...
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Hello all. Have done the quest. Visited Vlad and conquered. I simply cannot work out what to do next! The level will not allow teleportation - There is a large...
Ian
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... go down a few levels until you find one with two up staircases. ... they're the first things i genocide--everything that's an L, if i can manage it. good...
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Does anyone play as a wizard that wants to talk to my daughter about wizard issues? Me I play as a valkyrie, not a magic user, so I am clueless....
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Just sent you an email and it bounced back!...
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... I play wizards: I also die a lot :( Happy to talk about them, though. Maybe we're doing the same things wrong? ...
Jane Williams
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