Just chatting about a game

[Petoften]

Found a rod of polymorph... now that sounds dangerous.

[Petoften]

Going down again with inv minimized - have a whole 2 slots for new loot...

Rod of healing for sell - for 60000...

[Petoften]

Ring of resist poison is exceedingly valuable. It cuts the risk of death by a whole lot especially for a warrior. You can now afford at least one breath from any undetected poison breather. Wear it. Keep a damage ring or something as a swap for when you really need to fight. Then put the rpois ring back on. You'll find a better source of poison resist at some point and you can drop the Ring.

Good to have that confirmed, it seemed pretty useful. Glad a made a point to bring it back and identify when I couldn't tell what it was.

[Pete Mack]

Ring of resist poison is exceedingly valuable. It cuts the risk of death by a whole lot especially for a warrior. You can now afford at least one breath from any undetected poison breather. Wear it. Keep a damage ring or something as a swap for when you really need to fight. Then put the rpois ring back on. You'll find a better source of poison resist at some point and you can drop the Ring.

[Mondkalb]

You need poison resisistance, because there are monsters that can breathe a massive amount of poison which could kill a char without rpoison instantly.

[Petoften]

Got a ring of resist poison... wonder if it's worth it, I get poisoned a lot and have to get hit a round while I drink resist poison...

[Petoften]

Normally they don't teleport too far away and will come back after you, if they can find a path.
You can use detect spells/devices to try to locate them and go after them. You will get back any item or gold that was stolen if you kill them.

Thanks - made a mistake and didn't find him, so no rod of light now. Edit - had a spare in the house, all set, though I haven't used it yet.

[Petoften]

Dropping wands of stun monster and fire balls (144 damage)...

[Mondkalb]

A brigand stole a rod and disappeared - can I find him and get it back?

Normally they don't teleport too far away and will come back after you, if they can find a path.
You can use detect spells/devices to try to locate them and go after them. You will get back any item or gold that was stolen if you kill them.

[Pete Mack]

Not if they are still far away. Sure you lose a round of archery. But it is far more important to bail out early from a fight that could kill you in a turn or two. Here is a partial list
* Kavlax
* Gorlim
* drolem (bad news for a warrior)
* Ancient Multi-hued Dragon
* Etherial drake (these are really bad news for a HT Warrior, unless you are immune to confusion.)
* Death drake and great crystal Drakes can kill you quick, too. But they aren't quite as bad as the others.

[Petoften]

A brigand stole a rod and disappeared - can I find him and get it back?

[Petoften]

Given that you're new, if you haven't given yourself full monster memory by copying monster.txt into lore.txt, you're going to want to keep that rod and use it frequently, so that you can recognize new enemies as being too dangerous to fight before you get your butt kicked.

Ya, main problem seems to be by the time I see them combat started so probing them will give them a round of attacks.

[luneya]

Got a rod of probing... Hm.

Given that you're new, if you haven't given yourself full monster memory by copying monster.txt into lore.txt, you're going to want to keep that rod and use it frequently, so that you can recognize new enemies as being too dangerous to fight before you get your butt kicked.

[luneya]

Interesting, I thought STR was the most important for a warrior. Makes it even worse I drank that potion that lowered Dex.

STR and DEX are equally important. But the half-troll's racial bonuses give better inherent STR than DEX, so it's more important to increase DEX by other means.

[Pete Mack]

You may want that, when deciding whether or not to fight a monster. It will tell you whether it breathes poison for 700 damage, or nether for 510, etc. But you can find that out jusf as well by copying monster.txt in lib/gamedata to lore.txt in lib/user