mcewan (10/21/82)
#N:uiucdcs:9500056:000:306 uiucdcs!mcewan Oct 20 20:41:00 1982 What makes you lose strength (other than ants and poison)? A lot of times I notice that my strength goes down for no apparent reason in the lower levels. Some times I stay the same strength until I get killed (usually level 18-22) and others my stregth will go down 3 or 4 points in the space of 2 levels.
emrath (10/21/82)
#R:uiucdcs:9500056:uiucdcs:9500064:000:307 uiucdcs!emrath Oct 21 10:23:00 1982 It is also worth noting that armor class seems to have an effect on whether dart traps will tap your strength or not. When I was coming up once, I was never tapped when wearing ac 1, although I stepped on quite a few dart traps. Also no ants stung me. While wearing ac 7, 3 darts connected and one ant did.
dave (10/22/82)
Besides ants and poison, some darts are poisoned and take strength if they hit. Dave Cohrs ...uwvax!dave
dave (10/22/82)
You lose strength occasionally when you move into a dart trap, fom my experience. That loss, however, seems to rebuild with time just like hit points. I have another question: what is the effect of a low strength? Is it FEWER hits, or LESS EFFECTIVE hits? I would have expected the latter, but it's very hard to see a pattern. Similarly, does armour class very low reduce the number of hits you take as well as the number of hit points taken off for a given hit?