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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Incredible. Simply.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.034155.5091@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:41:55 GMT
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- In article <BxxtCr.KEC@cs.columbia.edu> vh@cs.columbia.edu (Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou) writes:
- >>Stormbringer makes no difference in what intrinsics you can get.
- >Stormbringer makes a big difference in how easy you get the intrinsics. Each
- >time that you hit a monster with Stormbringer, it loses one level. When you
- >eat the corpse it leaves, your chance of getting any specific intrinsic is
- >(monster level)/(some constant depending on the intrinsic). Therefore, hitting
- >5 times a red dragon with Stormbringer, lowers your chances for getting fire
- >resistance from 2/3 to 1/3 (for example), and the effect is more important for
- >lower level monsters (e.g. try to get teleport control by killing tengus with
- >Stormy).
-
- The percentage chance of intrinsics depends on the monster's typical level,
- not on the level of the specific corpse you happened to kill.
-
- Teleport control is hard to get that way because teleport control from tengus
- is hard to get, period.
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
-
- Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
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