Just chatting about a game

[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.

[Petoften]

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

[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.

[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.

[Petoften]

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

[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]

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...

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Petoften]

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

Rod of healing for sell - for 60000...

[Petoften]

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

[Petoften]

Update, clvl 30, dlvl 38... found my first gravity hounds, they weren't bad.

[Petoften]

* Ancient Multi-hued Dragon

In a room with a mature multi-hued dragon now... hm.

[Petoften]

Killed the dragons. Now found a rapier of *animal slaying*, but that doesn't look very useful.