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Dru, the unimaginatively named human druid, was doing moderately well.
She'd pretty much overcome the setbacks of an equipment-to-dust incident
at an early-game altar and the complete lack of any useful herb gardens.
She was just starting her descent through the Tomb of the High Kings,
hacking through the inhabitants of a tension room without much thought,
when a monster that she didn't immediately recognize stepped into the
doorway in front of her.
"Hmm, a dark green 'F'," thought I. "That doesn't look familiar... I'd
better see what it is... Oh, crud."
A quick check of Dru's inventory revealed a lack of appropriate
protection, a panicked Heavenly Fury failed to drop the gorgon, and one
turn later the Tomb of the High Kings was graced with a new statue.
So.... anyone know any good tricks for handling gorgons?
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Josh Kelley
ADOM Sage - frontend for ADOM - http://www.jbc.edu/~josh/adom-sage
Sam Blanning
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2. Run.
3. Kill them really really fast.
Gorgons don't actually breathe gas that often. I've faced several and
managed to kill them all before they even tried to breathe gas.
Frances Kathleen Moffatt
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> Dru, the unimaginatively named human druid, was doing moderately well.
> She'd pretty much overcome the setbacks of an equipment-to-dust incident
> at an early-game altar and the complete lack of any useful herb gardens.
> She was just starting her descent through the Tomb of the High Kings,
> hacking through the inhabitants of a tension room without much thought,
> when a monster that she didn't immediately recognize stepped into the
> doorway in front of her.
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> "Hmm, a dark green 'F'," thought I. "That doesn't look familiar... I'd
> better see what it is... Oh, crud."
*sigh* Ah, yes. I have been there.
> A quick check of Dru's inventory revealed a lack of appropriate
> protection, a panicked Heavenly Fury failed to drop the gorgon, and one
> turn later the Tomb of the High Kings was graced with a new statue.
> So.... anyone know any good tricks for handling gorgons?
Missile weapons at thirty paces. Bolt spells and ball spells with a very
large radius would probably work too.
Love and coffee,
Frances
John S
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> > So.... anyone know any good tricks for handling gorgons?
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I believe a having a high DV gives you a chance to resist, though not if the
RNG hates you.
Malte Helmert
Indeed. Here is an old link that quantifies this. Guidebook material?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3aa4b27c.3944562%40news.phnet.fi
Malte
Josh Kelley
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>> I believe a having a high DV gives you a chance to resist, though not
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> Indeed. Here is an old link that quantifies this. Guidebook material?
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> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3aa4b27c.3944562%40news.phnet.fi
It's in the Guidebook already, as an addendum to section 0.12.1
(resistances).
I'm wondering though if some discussion of gorgons ought to be added to
0.9.4 (particularly annoying monsters). Does darkness help when
fighting gorgons?
Andy Williams
> I'm wondering though if some discussion of gorgons ought to be added to
> 0.9.4 (particularly annoying monsters).
Gorgons are quite rare, but I guess that doesn't preclude them from
the annoying list. There was recent discussion about protecting the
PC from their petrification attack; I didn't see amulets of free
action mentioned. Don't those work against gorgons? I always thought
they did. Maybe I've been lucky.
> Does darkness help when fighting gorgons?
I don't know the answer to that either, unfortunately.
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Andy Williams
ADOM Guidebook: http://www.andywlms.com/adom/
Mirror: http://users.rcn.com/andy.williams/adom/
Malte Helmert
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>>I'm wondering though if some discussion of gorgons ought to be added to
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> Gorgons are quite rare, but I guess that doesn't preclude them from
> the annoying list. There was recent discussion about protecting the
> PC from their petrification attack; I didn't see amulets of free
> action mentioned. Don't those work against gorgons? I always thought
> they did. Maybe I've been lucky.
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A quick test in g16pre2 shows that amulets of free action don't help
against their petrification attack. Amulets of life saving will save the
PC, once.
>>Does darkness help when fighting gorgons?
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In g16pre2, gorgons won't fight back in the dark.
Malte
david
Vadim Zeitlin
> There was recent discussion about protecting the PC from their petrification
> attack; I didn't see amulets of free action mentioned. Don't those work
> against gorgons? I always thought they did. Maybe I've been lucky.
Surely. The last game of my trollish barbarian who was wearing the amulet of
free action ended by an encounter with a gorgon.
Regards,
VZ
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Jukka Kuusisto
>2. Run.
And they don't usually use the breath weapon from far away, only
when they are next to you or a couple of spaces away. So try to
kill them from afar with missiles/spells/wands before they get
to you. Use teleport if they get too close.
-Jukka
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Jukka Kuusisto
Erik Piper
Brána města se otvírá a vyjíždí průvod
nekonečná řada mužů na koních
v srdcích tepe touha, hlavy hrdě vztyčené
pohled někam za obzor mají upřený
Odjíždějí do dálek pod vlajkami s křížem svým
a kdy se vlastně vrátí - nikdo netuší
Haj da dy dý dá - cestou jedou rytíři
Haj da dy dý dá - cestou dalekou
Haj da dy dý dá - vítr prachem zavíří
Haj da dy dý dá - za výpravou křížovou
Ve jménu jejich boha, ve jménu jejich víry
ve jménu jejich zbraní a ve jménu kořisti
jedou s nimi i kněží co maj drátěné košile
co jim budou žehnat před každičkým útokem
Jedou pod vlajkou s křížem - vstříc své budoucnosti
jaká vlastně bude - nikdo netuší
Haj da dy dý dá - cestou jedou rytíři....
Roky tiše uplývají a ten průvod řídne
trýzeň, nemoc, bída, hlad - kdopak je sem zval
a k tomu ještě nepřítel, který domov brání
domov co každý z rytířů v dáli zanechal
nezbývá než cesta zpět - pro ty co jestě zbyli
pod zbytky vlajky s křížem - kdo by to byl tušil
Haj da dy dý dá - cestou jedou rytíři....
Brána města se otvírá a vchází do ní průvod
vrací se s hlavou sklopenou, zbylo jich jen pár
kdo vrátil se zdravý - může být vlastně šťastný
třicetiletí starci s vlasy ze stříbra
Když odjeli do dálek pod vlajkami s křížem svým
že se takhle vrátí - nikdo netušil !!
Haj da dy dý dá - cestou jeli rytíři
Haj da dy dý dá - cestou dalekou
Haj da dy dý dá - vítr prachem zavířil
Haj da dy dý dá - za výpravou křížovou.
Q*bert, the level 21 female human wizard, was killed by believing in
the promises of chaos. Sort of. Actually, she was killed by not
reading the Guidebook before dipping leather boots in a potion of raw
chaos at a time when her TO, and thus HP, were significantly reduced
(100HP). She was kind of unlucky, as this was the only chaos roulette
she played during the whole game. Technically speaking, the death
message is wrong, as she was really killed by going to -60 HP, but on
the grand scale, yes, she was indeed killed by believing in the
promises of chaos. The saddest thing was, I didn't tremendously need
improved items; I was just "testing", because I thought the GB didn't
mention the potential damage from !oRC explosions, but that it
"certainly" couldn't exceed 100 HP.
Points of interest -
- I abused stomceptia, devil's roses, and pickaxe corrosion in a big
way in this game, and I'm planning to do it in my current game as
well. It gets boring after a while (I think that the chance of getting
ST from Stone Giant corpses starts falling even before modified ST
reaches 25), but the stat boost is really nice.
- wasn't sure if I could get ST to drop further from starvation than
from "basic starvation" without risking death - can anybody help me on
this point?
- got lightning immunity from a single blessed LL corpse in this game
- NICE.
- had to restart from a saved position twice in this game, once due to
accidentally bumping my power button and once due to the new keyboard
that I bought to replace one I'd spilled water on. DO NOT BUY
KEYBOARDS WITH A "POWER" BUTTON PLACED BETWEEN "END" AND THE ARROW
KEYS. Not if you're playing ADOM and for that matter, not if you
aren't playing ADOM. If you do happen to buy such a keyboard, at least
change your ACPI settings so "off" is linked to "sleep"... (which I
did, after that tragedy).
- do not get distracted while sacrificing, either - lost the elemental
gauntlets that way.
Erik
Josh Kelley
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> from "basic starvation" without risking death - can anybody help me on
> this point?
According to DarkFox, strength can go as low as half of its original
value if you want past "basic starvation":
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=av233o%24n03%241%40newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk
I haven't let it go that far, but I know that you can go past basic
starvation without any problem.