Re: Taming monsters...

"Janis Papanagnou" <Janis_Papanagnou@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One possibility is to polymorph your pet. You can do that if you find
> a polymorph trap and, e.g., have a magic whistle to command your pet.

IMHO this is the only way. Why use a wand or a potion and turn my pet
into a fungus, a mimic, or a newt? And this way works better the more
pets you have.

But you have to be very patient. In my current game I tamed six cats and
dogs, and what did I get? Three Master Liches and two Baby Grey Dragons!
They are magic resistant and can not be polymorphed again. I had to
bring this useless bunch into the upmost level of Sokoban and say
bye-bye. Then finally I got my desired purple worm.


> > also recently i tried starting off as a wizard. bad choice.
>
> Hmm.., many consider wizards a very good choice.

So I do. A wizard was my first role who won the game. He had a ring of
levitation which is very useful after writing the E-word. The cloak of
magic resistance helps to use polymorph traps because usually they
find you before you find them :)


> > i tried reading one of the books I had and said: "this book is
> > too difficult. continue? (yn)" y.
>
> If a spellbook is currently too difficult for your level, follow the
> warning and *don't* read it. Enhance your level and stats, or bless
> the spellbook so that you can always read it.

IMHO spellbooks are rather useless since the player has to undress to
cast a spell. If you are fighting you don't have time and it is stupid
to undress.
If you are not fighting, there is only one useful spell: identify.


Paul Lenz
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