Stone throwing giants ..

["Brian Thomas" <>]

		I believe I have come up w/ a simple hack (no code 
	changes!!) to make monsters throw boulders.. Giants will
	now hurl rocks with this hack. All that is needed is new
	treasures file and *either* the font installation files
	(archetypes crossfire.* files) or the *.diff files (for 
	those who want to build the fonts from scratch). 

	
	The 'philosophy' of this hack is to create a rock throwing 
	ability for monsters that is the same type as bows (type 14)
	but has the missle type 'rock'. I used the old 'boulder' 
	archetype to make the 'rock' missle. Damage is based on the 
	monster strength, and unfortuneately requires that the monster
	have the can_use_bows 1 flag set. Also, ability_stone_throw 
	is not strickly a monster ability in that a player who 
	looks at the equipment list of the monster will see a 'rock 
	thrower'. I could'nt make ability_stone_throw invisible *and*
	have monsters who can't see invisible use this ability. 
	In principle any monster can be made a rock thrower given
	the above provisos. Substantial damage can be achieved by 
	giving a rock thrower a high strength. 

	I have placed all the needed files in /pub/thomas/rock on
	ftp.astro.psu.edu. 

					brian thomas >> b.t.