Just chatting about a game

[Petoften]

I've found 2 more blue dragon scale mail...

[Petoften]

Mass banishment gets rid of all non-unique monsters within 15 square radius, at a cost of 1d4 damage per monster. It is the most valuable scroll in the game. Unfortunately, it is also very rare, so people generally save them for Morgoth (about 5 is normal to have then.) Other scrolls of note: Banishment (remove all monsters of a particular letter from the level; teleport level (immediate completely safe escape), *Destruction* (ditto--wrecks the entire dungeon for 15 square radius.)

So, I wasted the rare most valuable scroll. At least it's identified.

[Petoften]

Found a STR ring +2 in the store...

[Pete Mack]

Half-troll does not need strength, and he doesnt need constitution. He needs dexterity.

[luneya]

Hm found a staff and scroll of identify rune doesn't even see it to identify, and using it didn't give any info.

ID rune doesn't work on staves because they don't have runes. You'll have to use-id it. Were there any monsters around when you tested it? If not, it's almost certainly one of the status inflicters: confuse, sleep, stun, or hold. Historically, detect invisible and curing were also difficult staves to use-id, but I'm pretty sure that those staves now id on use even if there is nothing to detect or cure.

[Petoften]

Identified the shovel as +1 digging, but then found a ring of digging +4, not sure if it's worth keeping.

[Petoften]

Half-troll does not need strength, and he doesnt need constitution. He needs dexterity.

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

[Mondkalb]

Identified the shovel as +1 digging, but then found a ring of digging +4, not sure if it's worth keeping.

You can swap in the ring if you want to dig a tunnel, depending on your weapon you probably won't need the shovel. I think it can also be activated for stone to mud.

[Petoften]

Tough battle, three named trolls together, had to use most of my heal critical, slow monster and speed. Got a 'short bow of Amrod'.

[Petoften]

You can swap in the ring if you want to dig a tunnel, depending on your weapon you probably won't need the shovel. I think it can also be activated for stone to mud.

So far just digging with my weapon has worked pretty well - not sure if I'll need it, I'll store it in the (full) house just in case.

[Pete Mack]

Your weapon will look something like this:

Combat info:
     3.8 blows/round.
     [COLOR="red"]With +0 STR and +2 DEX you would get 4.1 blows[/COLOR]
     Average damage/round: 133.6 vs. creatures not resistant to cold,
     and 94 vs. others.

Yes, more strength will get you more damage per blows, and will let you use heavier weapons. But it will always be DEX that you need most for more blows.

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

[Petoften]

Got a rod of probing... Hm.

[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

[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.

[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.