Best ways to train pets?

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Hi all,
I'm eager to try pet-training as an ADOM pasttime. I recently had a play
with lizardman bards, because I love lizards, but no matter which animals I
train, I can't seem to even *begin* to level them up before they take
damage.

I'm hoping for some comprehensive information on the best ways to train
pets. It can be as scummy or fair as you like, I just want to know how to
get a pet more powerful than I am.

Having played necromancers to completion more than once, and having used the
small cave, I think I must be missing something (or lotsof things).

I have patience, but no clue where to start. Anyone fancy helping me out?

Thanks,

 

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I'm not sure if this would work, but have you tried polymorphing your
pet? Who knows, you could get a Lich for a "pet", if you could call it
that...

 

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Mechanoid wrote:

> I'm not sure if this would work, but have you tried polymorphing your
> pet? Who knows, you could get a Lich for a "pet", if you could call
> it that...

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The trouble with that is, there's no such thing as "polymorphing" in
ADoM - not in the sense in which it exists in many other roguelikes,
anyway. The closest you can come is by dousing a creature with a
particular type of potion, and not only is that unreliable, the only
available means of achieving it will also make the creature hostile -
meaning, no longer a pet.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to have a lich for a pet, just that
you can't get one by those means.

Also, Mechanoid: please learn to quote.

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The Wanderer

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side of it.

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Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:20:02 +0100 DarkFox (darkfox@uscm.fsnet.co.uk) szumi:

> I'm hoping for some comprehensive information on the best ways to train
> pets.

It's tedious. But try with somthing which regenerates fast. Fairy
dragon do, not only it. Strange, guidebook doesn't mention it.

koctyxa

 

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DarkFox : "and having used the
small cave"
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Do you mean : used it by reading a "familar summoning scroll" in it?.
The power of the summoned pet is adjusted by how dangerous the present
dungeon is. So at low levels, they might be quite tough.