(Possible) Bugs in POWDER 108

Jeff,

You don't have a public email address? Your blog tells people to
resend emails that got stuck in a spam filter, but no email address.
So I'll post here instead. Hello, world!

In playing POWDER a few times last night, I came across a couple
potential bugs while polymorphing myself.

Firstly, I noticed that with all my extra (temporary) hitDice and
magicDice granted me extra skill/spell slots. Ok, great. So I tried
reading a spellbook and learning a spell, thinking I'd probably lose
it when I unPoly back to myself. But the learned spells and skills
don't seem to disappear, so instead I get messages that I have, say,
-1 free skill spots. Fortunately, I can't keep learning spells at -1
because the code checks for positive skill spots available, not a
(slots!=0) test.

Another one I found is that, as a ghost, I could unPoly back to my
human form in the middle of some rock (at the edge of the screen, for
instance). That's fine, and I figured that would kill me, but instead
I'm just me and stuck in the rock. Kind of annoying if you can't even
die, since a high-level character wouldn't be able to leave his mark
on the high score list. I managed to zap myself with a wand of
teleportation, so I survived. Seems like I should have asphyxiated
instead, since I don't know how I could move enough to even get to a
wand.

That being said, POWDER is a terrific game! I'm hooked on it, now.
It's perfect for my DS. I'm planning on getting it for my brother for
Christmas (on a DS flash card). My only complaint so far is that the
title screen (with the slug) is kind of bland. It'd be nice to have
both screens show something cool when the game starts.
.

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