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colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (05/17/84)

["Ice monsters are great for keeping potions chilled." --Conan the Bavarian]

Unfortunately, I can confirm R.H.'s report.  Sometimes I have more than
enough HP to sustain a single blow, but still get wiped out.  I suspect
that there are two problems:

	against a Fly-Trap, there's no maximum damage to look up.
	So don't "f" a fly-trap.

	goofs in the table of maximum damages by monster.

Not that I have verified the existence of such a table ...

	third point:  obviously a stuttering terminal will evoke
	the same phenomenon.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel

crigney@uok.UUCP (05/25/84)

#R:gloria:-18000:uok:13500006:000:680
uok!crigney    May 24 18:38:00 1984

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	goofs in the table of maximum damages by monster.

Not that I have verified the existence of such a table ...
/* ---------- */
There is an internal table of the monsters.  In our version
(unlimited kinds of monsters) we have played around with this
a lot, adding new monsters and switching powers around, etc.
I once had an incredibly good character, who looked like he
was going all the way, with 60-some hit points (at 7th level,
I think), who was killed in a single hit by an easy monster.

Someone had typoed 1d8 into 1d80 for its damage.  Arrgh!

	Carl
	..!ctvax!uokvax!uok!crigney
	..!duke!uok!crigney