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hearter Unregistered user |
what are your most common causes of death? also post remedies for other players' causes so that we might improve our game. for me(in no particular order): 1. early game, cant get rid of cursed weapon 2. ACW without frost bolt 3. blup's mom 4. paralyse(ghul, floating eye) 5. mixed tension rooms 6. nasty shit in dwarven halls 7. early game, orc/goblin/kobold chieftain 8. 100-point criticals(elementals/steel golems) 9. early game, undead wilderness encounter in swamps on way to CoC 10. teleportitis + no teleport control(i just quit for this one) i find it weird that ive never died to gorgons before. |
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TromboneA Registered user Last page view: 6984 days, 6 hours, 2 minutes and 34 seconds ago. |
I find that I get surrounded in the small cave a lot. That's just me being dumb - a lot. I used to get hosed by giant slugs when searching for Keethrax annoyingly often, until I decided to try killing them with missiles while maneuvering to stay out of the straight-line compass points that the slug can spit acid at during its move. Allowing spellcasting to select targets like missile attacks would make these things a lot nastier. |
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Sargoth Registered user Bard Last page view: 5166 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
13. Starvation. 14. Poison. 15. Waiting a turn or two too long to drink a healing potion. 16. Going to places/getting into situations you are not completely ready for yet. 17. Exploding doors/pits/spear traps... http://tankefel.blogspot.com/ So far you have only killed one wild cat. |
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Nchurmdaz Registered user Goblin flash mobber Last page view: 6198 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
18. Suddenly a stone block hits your head. You die... :) Got that three times. Twice - with very promising bards. Ubi patria ibi bene! |
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Sargoth Registered user Bard Last page view: 5166 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
19. Yrrigs/Keethrax. 20. Accidently eating a kobold (or eating a shaman beliving you have some sort of cure on your persona). 21. Pressing the wrong direction key. 22. Standing on a chaotic altar. 23. Power failiure. 24. Boredom. 25. Reading a scroll of item destruction, destroying a critical part of your inventory (armor, weapon etc). http://tankefel.blogspot.com/ So far you have only killed one wild cat. |
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Morio Registered user Holy Champion of ADoM Last page view: 4109 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes and 52 seconds ago. |
26. Feeling too confident that's the main reason for my deaths "I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but I know World War 4 with be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein |
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Sargoth Registered user Bard Last page view: 5166 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
27. Crime lord. 28. Artifact guardians (if encountered at a low level). 29. Drowning. 30. Strength of Atlas ending, crushing you under your own luggage. 31. Sickness. 32. "You feel [truly] excited"; greater and regular vaults. http://tankefel.blogspot.com/ So far you have only killed one wild cat. |
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 d666 Registered user zombie Last page view: 7021 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
33. foolishness of mine:). GoG removal while carrying tons of gold, mana orb overusage, etc. (these are methods my characters use to commit suicide after xlevel 30). 34. holding a single numpad key for too long (too many combat turns, that is). an ugly variant of #26. character usually die this way by xlevel 20. 35. holeinthewall - agressive assassins+trying to avoid agressive beggars=too much for a level 1 lamer unable to hold his sword properly. this is quite common for challenging race/class combos. What do you wish for? *THUMBS* EM_ Silence. Silence. .... *THUMB* *THUMB* *THUMB* You die... |
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Nchurmdaz Registered user Goblin flash mobber Last page view: 6198 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
36. Reading too much. This includes some spoily forums :) and books of Wish, Create Item, Death ray, Earthquake etc. by non-spellcaser classes. Dying occurs due to fireball/HP drain. 37. Drinking from puddles, thus turning into a goat :)- refference to Ukrainian folk tale. In reality death occurs due to water snakes. 38. Trying to invent new recipes - RNG doesn't like creative alchemists. 39. Dipping wrong item (which cannot be polymorphed due to danger level) into wrong potion (raw chaos) - KABOOM! - But hey! We've fallen into listing almost all causes of death, not just the most common ones. Ubi patria ibi bene! |
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Molach Registered user Lord of DurisMud Last page view: 5352 days, 11 hours, 51 minutes and 15 seconds ago. |
For early game, I find that my most common cause of death is 40. Pit vipers (kills off most of my new chars that never live up) 41. Gnolls (for some reason - they don't seem as hard as they are) 42. Blink dogs. Summoning, + align drop makes me lose prayability. Mid game 2. AKW Late game 43. ElDeR ChAoS gOd. |
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d666 Registered user zombie Last page view: 7021 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
"But hey! We've fallen into listing almost all causes of death, not just the most common ones. " i guess it'd become boring if everyone listed only the same stadndard ways of death. the posts above seem to make an interesting list together, so i insist - keep the topic alive, but also strain your memory and try to bring something new in!;d a tiny bonus: 43. random wilderness encounters near terinyo [hill orcs are the most abominable], when i have not even reached level 2. What do you wish for? *THUMBS* EM_ Silence. Silence. .... *THUMB* *THUMB* *THUMB* You die... |
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Ashandarei Registered user Spearmaster Last page view: 5149 days, 11 hours, 36 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
My chars mostly die due to boredom or carelessness. In mid-game the water dragon (the bigger one, that is ;) has killed a lot of my chars. Including my promising hurthling mindcrafter a few days ago :(. Also, 44) special insta-kill attacks like gorgons and death-ray casting monsters kill some chars, but that's mostly because of carelessness.. The rust monster touches your blessed Trident of the Red Rooster. Nothing happens. You laugh at the monster's pitiful attempt. |
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Battle bunny Registered user I'm just that cool Last page view: 6038 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
45) Hitting a floating eye and getting killed by lots of monsters when paralyzed (\_/) (o.0) (> <) ( / \ ) Don't click this http://www.mindistortion.net/iwantyoursoul/?i_am=Darkcutter |
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tongHoAnh Registered user adoomed Last page view: 6837 days, 20 hours, 41 minutes and 58 seconds ago. |
46) Chocked on your own vomit (got once) My RL dumpyard: http://www.geocities.com/ceruleannebula/index.html |
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hearter Unregistered user |
i chicken out halfway 75% of the time in the small cave when i get like level 3 to avoid death. keethrax can be taken out after training to level 11-12 in ID cause he's pretty annoying to deal with sometimes. 13. in the ID, go up and down staircase to keep finding new rooms. scum these rooms for rations. 20. potions of healing cure sickness IIRC. and they're pretty common even low level (: 27. casters can bolt him out easy, melee characters dont need to take him for exp, theres ID (: 35. level at ID first (: 43. the orcs(forest + hill) are a good way to get guaranteed crude spears slightly later though, coward run around pick up thrown spears run. |
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Echo Registered user Last page view: 3788 days, 5 hours, 55 minutes and 35 seconds ago. |
47. The sickness "last blast" (you may not have seen this because it doesn't always happen IIRC) 48. Trying to tame greater claw bugs with a level 1 bard 49. Entering the bugvillage underground level and getting instakilled 50. Dark elven priests! :@! 51. Giant slugs acid attack. Extremely annoying 52. Deity annoyed -> inventory cursed -> quit game 53. Summoners in the Big Room |
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Battle bunny Registered user I'm just that cool Last page view: 6038 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
50) is especially dangerous when you have killed lots of spiders earlier so you get lots of highly experienced tarantulas:-( Those can kill lvl50 chars! Serious. (\_/) (o.0) (> <) ( / \ ) Don't click this http://www.mindistortion.net/iwantyoursoul/?i_am=Darkcutter |
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Sargoth Registered user Bard Last page view: 5166 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 2 seconds ago. |
54. Cat lord. Just killed a very promising priest of mine... http://tankefel.blogspot.com/ So far you have only killed one wild cat. |
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d666 Registered user zombie Last page view: 7021 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
battle bunny -> these spiders can be annoying if you're not tough, but fighting hordes of extremely experienced monsters (like these) is a way of achieving grand mastery. (you need good meele damage) What do you wish for? *THUMBS* EM_ Silence. Silence. .... *THUMB* *THUMB* *THUMB* You die... |
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Maniac Unregistered user |
55) Three words - RNG. The most common cause of death of all PC. Other is indifferent :) Seriously, taking into account all what is written here, PC has a great chance to die every turn of game. The most common causes of death written in GuideBook IMHO is enough. |
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Echo Registered user Last page view: 3788 days, 5 hours, 55 minutes and 35 seconds ago. |
56) Diamond golems!! :@! :$! |
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Maniac Unregistered user |
> 52. Deity annoyed -> inventory cursed -> quit game False. One potion of water, one coaligned altar, one scroll of uncursing and problemm is solved! 57) Atacking non-hostile monster in village while PC is "Lust for blood" 58) Killing cat and quiting game 59) Game crash when you haven't saved (remember signal 291). 60) Computer crash :) 60) |
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Supaplex Unregistered user |
Vortices kill my low level chars too often :-( I also die with wizards when I'm picking up a lot of stuff(at altar) by holdin 'a'... and after itmes run out: skills->alchemy->random ingredients->*KABOOM* |
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King Registered user Dark Elven Assassin Last page view: 7051 days, 1 hour, 36 minutes and 25 seconds ago. |
61= Bored and playing stupid so u hold down the left/right arrow to go down a LONG hallway fast and next thing u kno your comp makes that beep and u noticed that u just died trying to attack a high lvl monster while trying to travel the hallway:( You step upon a loose stone. You notice a clicking sound. *KABOOM*. you are suddenly engulfed in a huge explosion. The cave tiger grunts one last time before it is consumed by roaring flame. *Moaning Patheticly, it falls to the ground. Suddenly the cats spirit rises from its body and then dissapears.* |
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Nchurmdaz Registered user Goblin flash mobber Last page view: 6198 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
Damn. Just use 'w'alk command. That's a heavy spoiler, to say the least. Ubi patria ibi bene! [Edited 1 time, last edit on 8/3/2005 at 19:17 (GMT -5) by Nchurmdaz] |
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Rickah Registered user Damn cats Last page view: 6364 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes and 49 seconds ago. |
62) Holding down num-pad button nr4 while killing endless summons in the last room of D50 trying to get to the second lever so I can get my first win. Haven't won yet :/ The bigger they are, the more bones they break :D |
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BattleAxe Registered user Last page view: 6543 days, 7 hours, 7 minutes and 33 seconds ago. |
My low level characters usually die from the Ant hive in the puppy cave. I usually go down there now so the game will be a little more challenging. |
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 Emerald Registered user AVID ADOM FAN Last page view: 6943 days, 23 hours, 3 minutes and 58 seconds ago. |
I hate mimic havemind! THey paralized me and bring my Hp from 800 to -21... Boo hoo Waiting for Jade... |
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Mewto Registered user Last page view: 3810 days, 8 hours, 19 minutes and 19 seconds ago. |
64. Parent's or anyone calling you, and while your talking your little bro sits on the PC(my brother usually closes adom from the X in the right part of the screen:(() For the Horde! |
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dosquarts Registered user Cooked lizard Last page view: 6515 days, 4 hours, 52 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
Regarding vortices & low level PCs, always keep a scroll of darkness handy (unless you can already cast the spell, of course). I have *never* heard of a vortex exploding in the dark. Saves your skin every time. |
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