andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (06/02/85)
Looking through the hack source is almost as much fun as playing. The
parsimonious comments make for a real challenge.
The program appears to calculate the true phase of the moon based upon
the system's current date. Here's what hack does differently during
full moon and new moon:
FULL MOON:
-- You get an extra point of luck when the game starts. There's a
potential bug here: it looks like you can start up a game during
a full moon, then save/restore many times, and get an extra point
of luck each time. Twenty points is enough to guarantee hits
against monsters. I haven't tried this out.
-- At night, you have only a one in six chance of successfully taming
a dog. Nighttime lasts from 10:00pm until 5:59am, regardless of
the season.
-- A dragon has only a 2d3 attack. Normally a dragon has a 2d4
attack.
NEW MOON
-- If a cockatrice hisses at you and you're not carrying a dead
lizard, you are always turned to stone. (If there's moonlight,
you get a saving throw.)
-=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP]
(orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]