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I have just recently started playing POWDER, and today I had a fun time.
First I made far enough to realize what the gods are, got fighter far
enough (as a cleric) to see the choice of god really matters, and got an
interesting wizard. He started with Wand of Nothing(2) NamedSomething
and a Tome of Fire, and found Crystal Platemail and Purple Potion of
OrcSomething before even seeing a creature. In the first level, he found
a room full of creatures. I didn't feel confident enough to try it yet,
so I descended. I found Iron Boots F-Something. Wizard God tought him
Force Bolt and Regeneration, and I hadn't yet learned any spells from my
tome. He got polymorphed by a trap, which he had created when testing a
wand, when searching for food. He turned into Death Slug. He survived
even that, and got some food, but went up to the first level. There he
got turned back to human, zapped another wand, found out he now had a
Troll that was not at all friendly, and when dancing around trying to
Force Bolt it diagonally he suddenly died to a crash. I didn't, and
never will!, have any idea about what my artifacts did.
I was rather messed up, so I started another char. He had two cursed
armors (robe and -2 chain), poor weapon (dagger, I think), Tome of
Utility (I didn't realize it had attack spell in Force Bolt) and
something boring. I decided to make a honorous suicide. He didn't find
creatures. I decided to just dive down. He saw one from distance, and
then found a Brown Slug in a room with some boulders. He pushed boulders
so that it couldn't come to him, and discovered Empty Bottle
YetAgainNamed! He wielded it (first and only item he wielded in whole
game). He became invisible (=invinsible!).
The room was something like this:
######
#.#..###
....@O...
##O#...#
########
I could enter and leave from both ends, and kill creatures with Force
Bolt (now I actually Read the tome I started with!), tested this on the
slug and made a rat follow me to the right end. I left, closed door and
went to casting position (@ in picture). I shooted Force Bolt, and the
game crashed!
I don't know what it is, but it might have something to do with Force
Bolt. I think it was cast just before both crashes.
Another bugs and buglike things:
I polymorphed myself into Iron (or Steel) Golem with my
fighter-wants-to-be-cleric type. Instead of Heal, he had Force Bolt. He
also had about 10 spell levels, so I learned Regeneration, Cure Poison
and Major Heal, as well as Heal again. Then I ran out of my starting
spellbook. It was great as long as lasted, and then I discovered
Polymorph has time limit. Goodbye armor 30+, hp 200 and mp 100. I
could wear everything I had as a golem, btw, with (maybe) the exception
of shield. That might be a bug.
That warrior/cleric died to Giant Bat that just wouldn't die. From 25+
to -3, while the bat didn't die. I considered healing when I was down to
8 or so, but foolishly decided to try and kill (and fail) to hit bat to
death from its Almost Dead status.
I learned Light, and learned Darkness as well. I didn't find this
mentioned in the spells-section, and didn't see Darkness as its own
spell (IIRC).
Pressing a key sometimes causes the game to think it is being hold down.
This happened to me twixe (in a row) with 'S'witch place and once with
go up/down stairs (both are ; with my Finnish keyboard)
My afore-mentioned wizard had found Amulet of Strangulation or something
similar, and had 1 hp left. He had Potion of Water, and I decided to try
dipping the amulet into it. Beeing the neeb I am, I chose 'dip' from the
POTION, and then the amulet as the item to DIP IT INTO. Well, I got
informed that I cannot dip potion into amulet, and didn't die. I got
surprised, as I had expected the amulet to kill me, and saw that the
amulet was now on my inventory, not on my neck. I removed my Evil Boots
Of Jumping by dipping potion into them, too, and put those Iron Boots
F-Something on.
I like POWDER very much. If I had a GBA, how would I get this into it?
Random comments:
Jumping is a cool ability. Polymorphing has been quite cool, also. I
haven't yet found any non-strangulating amulets. I have found only few
scrolls, and only one of identify. I don't understand how Rogues are
supposed to deal with large number of monsters, as they start with only
few arrows and they don't seem to be very common. Water behaves
strangely: even as a Golem wielding Plate Mail I could go over one
screen, but going second screen killed my earlier try. He survived the
first turn on the second water tile, but as he tried to leave he got
drowned again and died. I prefer the non-nethackish, non-starting
tileset, but some monsters (esp. Kiwi) are rather hard to recognise.
Janne Joensuu,
Endoperez
P.S. 40Tude Dialog complains that this was posted to multiple groups,
but Followup-To field is lacking (it is empty). What should I do to it?
What is it?
I have just recently started playing POWDER, and today I had a fun time.
First I made far enough to realize what the gods are, got fighter far
enough (as a cleric) to see the choice of god really matters, and got an
interesting wizard. He started with Wand of Nothing(2) NamedSomething
and a Tome of Fire, and found Crystal Platemail and Purple Potion of
OrcSomething before even seeing a creature. In the first level, he found
a room full of creatures. I didn't feel confident enough to try it yet,
so I descended. I found Iron Boots F-Something. Wizard God tought him
Force Bolt and Regeneration, and I hadn't yet learned any spells from my
tome. He got polymorphed by a trap, which he had created when testing a
wand, when searching for food. He turned into Death Slug. He survived
even that, and got some food, but went up to the first level. There he
got turned back to human, zapped another wand, found out he now had a
Troll that was not at all friendly, and when dancing around trying to
Force Bolt it diagonally he suddenly died to a crash. I didn't, and
never will!, have any idea about what my artifacts did.
I was rather messed up, so I started another char. He had two cursed
armors (robe and -2 chain), poor weapon (dagger, I think), Tome of
Utility (I didn't realize it had attack spell in Force Bolt) and
something boring. I decided to make a honorous suicide. He didn't find
creatures. I decided to just dive down. He saw one from distance, and
then found a Brown Slug in a room with some boulders. He pushed boulders
so that it couldn't come to him, and discovered Empty Bottle
YetAgainNamed! He wielded it (first and only item he wielded in whole
game). He became invisible (=invinsible!).
The room was something like this:
######
#.#..###
....@O...
##O#...#
########
I could enter and leave from both ends, and kill creatures with Force
Bolt (now I actually Read the tome I started with!), tested this on the
slug and made a rat follow me to the right end. I left, closed door and
went to casting position (@ in picture). I shooted Force Bolt, and the
game crashed!
I don't know what it is, but it might have something to do with Force
Bolt. I think it was cast just before both crashes.
Another bugs and buglike things:
I polymorphed myself into Iron (or Steel) Golem with my
fighter-wants-to-be-cleric type. Instead of Heal, he had Force Bolt. He
also had about 10 spell levels, so I learned Regeneration, Cure Poison
and Major Heal, as well as Heal again. Then I ran out of my starting
spellbook. It was great as long as lasted, and then I discovered
Polymorph has time limit. Goodbye armor 30+, hp 200 and mp 100.
Icould wear everything I had as a golem, btw, with (maybe) the exception
of shield. That might be a bug.
That warrior/cleric died to Giant Bat that just wouldn't die. From 25+
to -3, while the bat didn't die. I considered healing when I was down to
8 or so, but foolishly decided to try and kill (and fail) to hit bat to
death from its Almost Dead status.
I learned Light, and learned Darkness as well. I didn't find this
mentioned in the spells-section, and didn't see Darkness as its own
spell (IIRC).
Pressing a key sometimes causes the game to think it is being hold down.
This happened to me twixe (in a row) with 'S'witch place and once with
go up/down stairs (both are ; with my Finnish keyboard)
My afore-mentioned wizard had found Amulet of Strangulation or something
similar, and had 1 hp left. He had Potion of Water, and I decided to try
dipping the amulet into it. Beeing the neeb I am, I chose 'dip' from the
POTION, and then the amulet as the item to DIP IT INTO. Well, I got
informed that I cannot dip potion into amulet, and didn't die. I got
surprised, as I had expected the amulet to kill me, and saw that the
amulet was now on my inventory, not on my neck. I removed my Evil Boots
Of Jumping by dipping potion into them, too, and put those Iron Boots
F-Something on.
I like POWDER very much. If I had a GBA, how would I get this into it?
Random comments:
Jumping is a cool ability. Polymorphing has been quite cool, also. I
haven't yet found any non-strangulating amulets. I have found only few
scrolls, and only one of identify. I don't understand how Rogues are
supposed to deal with large number of monsters, as they start with only
few arrows and they don't seem to be very common. Water behaves
strangely: even as a Golem wielding Plate Mail I could go over one
screen, but going second screen killed my earlier try. He survived the
first turn on the second water tile, but as he tried to leave he got
drowned again and died. I prefer the non-nethackish, non-starting
tileset, but some monsters (esp. Kiwi) are rather hard to recognise.
Janne Joensuu,
Endoperez
P.S. 40Tude Dialog complains that this was posted to multiple groups,
but Followup-To field is lacking (it is empty). What should I do to it?
What is it?
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