dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (12/29/83)
From: lmeck@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Loren Meck):
-- Winning is everything; gold is nothing (you can always get more by
-- going up and down repeatedly through levels 7-14 on the way up to
-- kill leprechauns if you want more gold). Therefore, never leave a
-- leprechaun standing; just walk up and attack (save arrows for numphs).
-- Even if your gold is stolen, you get whatever the leprechaun might have
-- been standing on, and it might be that two handed sword or slow monster
-- staff you need to win.
In 5.3 this is no longer correct, in my view - leprechauns can drop
HUMUNGOUS amounts of gold. I just had one on level 9 drop 685 pieces,
and 200-400 is not at all uncommon. Also, I usually don't run out of
arrows/darts/shurikens etc., and saving them is pointless. Even in
5.2 I have always attacked Leprechauns with arrows and found it to work.
And going up and down between 7 and 14 is so tedious as to be impossible -
the L's only show up once in a while.
Dave Sherman
Magnifibeast (still trying to win on 5.3 after many 5.2 successes)
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