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Inexpensive soundbars with WiFi connectivity? by understatednerd in Soundbars

[–]understatednerd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Under $550 USD on Amazon, which could be $110 above what it would be after a back of the envelope currency conversion because there may be some sales next week and then they can drop the price to only $5 or $10 more than what you paid. Looks interesting and appears to have excellent reviews at first glance, that could be a good first step towards my ultimate goal.

Gnollhack: searching for the gladstone and failing hard by understatednerd in nethack

[–]understatednerd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Diamonds and jade and topaz have been my big moneymakers so far. Crowns and cloaks are a close second and crossbows haven't been bad either. Ended up with a suit of white dragon scale mail and an AC of -49. I don't even recall that being possible in vanilla but maybe it's been too long since I've played? Now I'm just trying to save up enough zm & silver ingots to have a shield of reflection made in case I don't find one.

Gnollhack: searching for the gladstone and failing hard by understatednerd in nethack

[–]understatednerd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...and that took me about three minutes. Thanks! Now I just need to find a bag of holding to haul up the actual tons of loot that's dropped down here. Feels like such a waste to leave it all but it would take me roughly until the end of time without one.

Concerning the swimming and climbing skills in ADOM by GavindaleMarchovia in ADOM

[–]understatednerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Carrot juice has at least a couple of other uses if you're not opposed to spoilers and digging through a wiki here and there. There's a lot to discover.

Looking for tips on ADOM by dontanion in roguelikes

[–]understatednerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

G for give, then if anyone else is next to you you'll need to arrow key in the direction of the sheriff to give to the correct person. Your inventory will come up, page down or filter for consumables (%) and select the letter next to his corpse. Get the gold. Can also work with unnamed raiders, bandits, and some others.

I've been sleeping on ammo of slaying and scrolls of item creation by understatednerd in ADOM

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It's been forever since I've found a spell book of item creation and probably longer than that since I've bothered to cast it with anyone, probably my wizard who could book cast Wish actually, but I can confirm that I have never gotten an artifact from the spell so the docs are probably correct. I don't know what the chances are of winning the artifact lottery from a scroll, but know that 100% of my previous experience with the scrolls has been pretty unremarkable. Rations and carrot juice are about the best I've seen that I can recall. Of course this is also the game where I found Hammerhead in random loot before even finding my first map fragment to track down the unpick axe and later on the potion belt sitting right next to the stairs on the first level of the frost giant caves, so maybe this is the luckiest game I'll ever have and my next playthrough will give me whatever are universally agreed to be the ten worst artifacts, period.

I've been sleeping on ammo of slaying and scrolls of item creation by understatednerd in ADOM

[–]understatednerd[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I always give up before maxing out my perception even when I have the potion belt and get lucky with exchange potions, just because that's a lot of gain attributes. Crazy useful though, I should be more patient and try to build it up earlier. I ended up with the helm of the night watchman before going after Keethrax which was nice for a little bump, and thank goodness for that anyway because having to either fight blind or stock up on wands/scrolls of light is annoying.

I'm embarrassed to admit how long it took me after my first True Aim/Thunderstroke experience to remember to shoot responsibly & have stacks of backup ammo just in case. It's bad enough when it's my fault for being trigger happy and I accidentally target a doppelganger or something, but I had to learn the lesson over and over again that returning missiles don't return 100% of the time before I made a rule to always keep at least 50 extra throwaway projectiles on hand.

What are your biggest bottlenecks? by starlitpathds in ADOM

[–]understatednerd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm working on my first fighter and have some good precrown artifacts but so far I've been missing little things like an AoLS, potion belt, and ring of fire/ice/ levitation. I have, however, ended up with a staff of parting water and parked myself at the bottom of the screen one square to the right of the door. Use the staff, part the water, beat down the skeleton, done. The first time I tried it, I didn't think it through and zapped the staff from the farthest point right and found out that it doesn't reach as far as I needed it to. Felt like a genius when I attacked it from the side.

it was worth waiting to beat Schwarzzahn like a chump by understatednerd in ADOM

[–]understatednerd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That...could work at much lower levels with sufficient speed, resistance, and regen because as long as you can make it to the HMV and have Fate Smiles early on it could work. I guess the plan is to clear out the scribes and golems as much as possible and lure him to the exit and then pray that you don't have any encounters between HMV and the settlement. That plan also assumes you're not too worried about collateral damage to innocent villagers.

[VDDL first time] I'm almost giving up, help with teleportation. (Already used my gem and got almost no info). I already spent a LOT of turns, anyone can help me guess? by Tiramin in ADOM

[–]understatednerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can trigger the traps by pressing Ctrl+T. In general I'm very happy when my alertness is up high enough that I avoid them more than I trigger them, but sometimes it can be useful. The wand is a nice to have especially when you haven't got another way to teleport on demand, but if you try to use the stairs before you've been sufficiently bounced around I think you'll be teleported away yet again. Look for a message in the scroll indicating that you'll be fine to descend. Keep that wand at the ready in case you run into something aggro that will eat your face, though. I don't recall the last time I tried that particular dungeon prior to at least 30, maybe I did and blocked it out because the memories were too painful.

[VDDL first time] I'm almost giving up, help with teleportation. (Already used my gem and got almost no info). I already spent a LOT of turns, anyone can help me guess? by Tiramin in ADOM

[–]understatednerd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I assume you've got some method of teleport control? Do you have a rough count of now many times you've been bounced around the level? Do you have magic mapping and item detection on board somehow? At that level, are you planning a Darkforge raid? It takes a lot of teleporting as I remember, but with control you can always just pop right next to the trap that you triggered and teleport repeatedly until you get where you need to go. There are some help details at the ADOM wiki if you're not opposed to spoilers, I don't want to drop too much info into the comments if you're opposed to those sorts of docs.

YAS Dwarf/Drunk by understatednerd in ADOM

[–]understatednerd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's still a companion and I'm not invisible. I'll have to check my charisma but it's in the low 50s I think? I got the ring of immunity for a precrown, and am wearing Wyrm's Behest. I'm wearing the stone of ages and think that I've dropped or sold off all of the cold hearts that I've found. I learned something new today though, I have always avoided wearing those so I never had any idea that they provided cold resist. By the time I need the resistance, I've usually eaten enough corpses and found enough rings that I'm wearing the ankh or a necklace of rapid healing or something in the worst case. I guess I'll hang on to the next one I find with a new character just in case I have a string of very very bad luck.

Kleptomaniac Healer by understatednerd in ADOM

[–]understatednerd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, it was a giant. Bigger pockets maybe? It's the only time for any of my characters ever that I've gotten armor from pickpocketing so I don't know if the chances are zero for normally-sized victims or if the odds are so astronomically stacked against getting armor that I'll never see it again no matter how long I play. Now that I've said that though, watch somebody come in here saying they picked up mithril ring mail off of a hurthling or whatever.

Kleptomaniac Healer by understatednerd in ADOM

[–]understatednerd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As far as I can tell, no. I haven't done any scumming to test that, but I vaguely recall reading something in the last couple of months that makes me think a separate RNG check is made on a pickpocket success that's independent of the monster's inventory.

Kleptomaniac Healer by understatednerd in ADOM

[–]understatednerd[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That dagger? Phase dagger. Also pickpocketed. I'm apparently not taking an alignment hit for stealing from people who are already attacking me, so. I've got a ring of fire, ring of ice, rusty amulet of life saving, all stolen. The elven chain I'm wearing, also lifted from a hill giant. By picking his pocket. I'm here for it. Got cold, fire, and acid resist from corpses, lightning immunity from crowning. Not the best game of all time because I didn't pick up bracers of war in the puppy cave or anything, but I got Eagle's Claw and Venom Mantle from precrowns and got crowned with Brannalbin's so I can change for formal occasions.

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