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hearter Unregistered user |
i used to get all my characters stuck at the toef even after 4 years, but the first game that i actually got past it was also my first win. the game usually gets easier after that, air/earth temples are nothing, just be prepared for NV in mana temple. so dont give up! good luck people. |
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Echo Registered user Last page view: 3585 days, 15 hours, 38 minutes and 13 seconds ago. |
I've played this game for 4 years too and I got past ToEF ONCE, with a gnomish priest. Then I descended to the Casino and acid bolted a mimic in the shop. The bolt hit the shopkeeper too and he killed me. I was !extremely! annoyed so I loaded a backup file which I had created after doing ToEF. I kept playing on and died again so why not just savescum all the way to the end? Ok, I tell you, I submitted that char into the HoF. But I was very frustrated that I didn't win without cheating and it took me so helluva long time so I just had to. Sorry. Jan Erik you may now remove it. It's a gnome priest named Karl. Btw, earth temple IS hard. When you have 4 earth elementals attacking you, it is highly possible that they bring your hp down to 0 in one turn. I was smashed down to 1hp, prayed and got healed and crowned. :) [Edited 1 time, last edit on 8/5/2005 at 06:12 (GMT -5) by Echo] |
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Nchurmdaz Registered user Goblin flash mobber Last page view: 5996 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes and 19 seconds ago. |
So what? I've lost lvl 33 Drakish Priest with 4 orbs yesterday, almost ready for final battle. He even killed Ki-Rinn :) Guess, who managed to kill my char? Ubi patria ibi bene! |
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Echo Registered user Last page view: 3585 days, 15 hours, 38 minutes and 13 seconds ago. |
NV, no doubt |
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Nchurmdaz Registered user Goblin flash mobber Last page view: 5996 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes and 19 seconds ago. |
Ooops. 5 orbs. Really miscounted them. Ubi patria ibi bene! |
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BcotN Registered user SoaD junkie Last page view: 6516 days, 7 hours, 2 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
THE RNG DID IT! IT WAS HIS FAULT! You die... |
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Nchurmdaz Registered user Goblin flash mobber Last page view: 5996 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes and 19 seconds ago. |
Nope. Keep guessing. My char was too tough for any RNG trick. BTW, he was crowned, wore Ankh.. Ubi patria ibi bene! [Edited 1 time, last edit on 8/5/2005 at 18:07 (GMT -5) by Nchurmdaz] |
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BcotN Registered user SoaD junkie Last page view: 6516 days, 7 hours, 2 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
rift? keriax? EM? You die... |
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Sargoth Registered user Bard Last page view: 4964 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
You are NEVER too tough for the RNG. It will prove you wrong the second you start to belive that you can stand up against it... Claw bug of some size. http://tankefel.blogspot.com/ So far you have only killed one wild cat. |
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Maelstrom Registered user The Knight of the Black Rose Last page view: 3125 days, 11 hours, 8 minutes and 42 seconds ago. |
A "too much stuff on the floor" bug killed him, or some other random crash. A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees a light at the end of that tunnel. A realist sees a train. And the train driver sees three idiots on the tracks. |
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einherjar Registered user Last page view: 6841 days, 11 hours, 31 minutes and 12 seconds ago. |
My best character had it easy in the Earth Temple and the Blue Dragon Caves, but she became a WMoPC in the UL. I was going to kill a white worm in one room of UL:4 and then read an SoCR. I killed the worm, and on that very turn I died. May thy wisdom be omnipresent. |
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Sargoth Registered user Bard Last page view: 4964 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
OMIGOD! 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: 5996 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes and 19 seconds ago. |
Ok. You can stop guessing. I just was gaining enough XP for levelup to 34 on the bottom of the rift. The reason was to rise Stealth to 100 and to get wierd tome from librarian. I had about 120K to go - half an hour and would have gotten it. And suddenly... :-P Power Failure! :) I know that there are wierd things generated by RNG, I mantioned that I even encountered Ki-Rinn, and someone here complained about never seeng one. I even DeathRayed it. But anyway, under *careful comand* a wizard/priest with good stats for his/her level and Teleport/Ethereal Bridge in standard situations can barely be killed that easy. Most cases of 'sudden death' on these stages are a mixture of real RNG action + loss of player's concentration. Like "And what if I hit this thing in meele one more time". Or pressing '4' of whatever even without such thoughts. About claw bugs of the proper size: normal one would barely reach it. They are darker in appearance, and their chance of killing ~500 HP player with DV of ~75 in a single turn is small. All the others, even in great numbers, would have tasted Improved Fireball (Invoked Devastation, that is) I should mention that this Drakeling PC was 'lucky' enough to encounted white dragon vault. Also, he was 'lucky' enought to have his lame commander pressing '4' while having a cave lion west of him. Also, he dug up several master liches in dvarven graveyard. Killed all thingies mentioned above. Without HP falling below 1/2. If we include power failures, system crashes and cats pressing keys on keyboard into RNG, then yes. My char was killed by RNG. But not just ADOM RNG (lesser one) but by a Real World's RNG. Ubi patria ibi bene! |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 5 days, 6 hours, 33 minutes and 19 seconds ago. |
Echo: I took a gnome priest named "Karl" submited by <unknown> off the listing, could you verify that I got the right one? Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |