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[unic]

It's one of the specialties - looking at your character, you took Athletics instead. You get another choice at CL20, if you make it that far

Yeah, and I took Mana Burn at 20 Have seen it activate by now... seems it happens randomly on occasion?

[Pete Mack]

I think it requires critical hits, which is why I recommended waiting til the midgame (cl 40, say.) They happen better than every other turn when you're getting 5 blows with a heavy weapon.

[unic]

The help text says something about Rogues being better with light weapons - what does this actually mean in game mechanisms?

And general reminder - which Ego items can have extra abilities and needs to be *identified*? Have forgotten so much stuff...

[Pete Mack]

Any that 'might have hidden powers.' In practice that means anything beyond branded weapons, and anything better than resistance armor.

[Pete Mack]

So, what a pain. Don't accidentally try to wield a spellbook. It'll get "wielded" and disappear. Silly bug.

[Pete Mack]

Man, forgot how ridiculous this game is

Read scroll xyzzy
You have no more scrolls of Teleportation -- more --
the baby blue dragon breathes lightning -- more --
the pseudodragon breathes darkness -- more -- you are blind.
...
You die.
Only in OAngband... teleport to a group of awake monsters...and they all start to breathe right away.

[Derakon]

Only in OAngband... teleport to a group of awake monsters...and they all start to breathe right away.

What, you expect the enemy to not lead off with their most powerful abilities?

[HugoVirtuoso]

PosChengband takes that ridiculousness to a whole new level.

[Pete Mack]

@D-- not so much that, as I expected them to be asleep. Did not expect awake groups of 'wandering monsters.'
And now I can't start the game again. I expect the old bug in font resources.

[wobbly]

Can cursed still be good in O? Got cursed arrows from a player ghost that still seem effective. Hmm, iding them puts them at -7,-3. Must just be my bow is good enough

[Pete Mack]

@wobbly -3 deadliness is almost meaningless. That's only a 3% reduction in base damage.

[Pete Mack]

The lack of ?recall in the stores is tedious. So is ID and selling, ugh. I'd forgotten.

[Pete Mack]

Arghh! So Bill Ferny dropped a pile of "good" throwing daggers. They went into quiver as a single stack. Then I threw them. When I pick them up (a) they don't go into quiver, (b) they lose all memory of what they are, so now I have to identify them individually!
Silly, silly bug.

[Pete Mack]

OK, I quit. Finally had a promising character, found ?recall in the dungeon. Seg fault on entering a store. Everything since cl 4 is lost. That does it. I will consider this variant dead.

[HugoVirtuoso]

OK, I quit. Finally had a promising character, found ?recall in the dungeon. Seg fault on entering a store. Everything since cl 4 is lost. That does it. I will consider this variant dead.

How many character levels did you lose in the process?