[crawl] Metabolism - really stupid question

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bork bork bork Timofei Shatrov bork 3:26:58 PM bork 2/2/2005 bork bork:

> What is metabolism(game wise)? Is it better when it is fast or slow?
> What's the purpose of Exsorcelled Hibernation?

The Intarweb says that metabolism is ?????. :-) It's almost the same in the
game as in real life: a faster metabolism means you have to eat more
(although in real life it also means you grow more and heal more, I think).
In Crawl, this is a pretty bad thing.

Ensorcelled Hibernation puts a monster in the Sleeping state so that you get
a new/first chance to sneak up on it and stab it. That's in theory, though.
In practice I've never had much luck with it, even with somewhat stealthy
characters -- I get messages like this:

The orc looks drowsy... You hear a shout!

And you can only use it on a monster one time per monster.

There's another, higher-level spell that does the same thing to multiple
monsters (perhaps all in your field of view).

Erik

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Erik Piper wrote:

> Ensorcelled Hibernation puts a monster in the Sleeping state so that you get
> a new/first chance to sneak up on it and stab it. That's in theory, though.
> In practice I've never had much luck with it, even with somewhat stealthy
> characters -- I get messages like this:
>
> The orc looks drowsy... You hear a shout!

it is fun with tiny chatracters (e.g. SpEn) in the early game.

> And you can only use it on a monster one time per monster.

Not true, you just have to wait ~20 turns until ENCH_SLEEP_WARY is cleared.

Lars, whose SpEn die anyway.