Re: Stormbringer is wimpy

[(Adrian Cockcroft - SMCC Product Marketing Engineering)]

Several years ago I played nethack through to the end, and at the
end my character was the most powerful thing around, and I got bored
and didn't have to be careful.

After that I played Moria to about the same level, but found that
I still had to tiptoe carefully around Ancient Multi-hued Dragons,
since they could cause more damage in one round than my Hp. I did kill
a few AMHD's, but it took luck and skill (and a lot of running away).

While there is a nice feeling to being all-powerful, I think it
spoils the game. I played Moria longer at a high level than nethack
and found crossfire via a gopher search when I was looking for
an up-to-date version of Moria (it found Moria-like in the description).

Regards Adrian

> From  Wed Sep  7 22:12 PDT 1994
> To: 
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: Stormbringer is wimpy 
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1994 21:41:21 -0700
> From: Peter Mardahl <>
> 
> In message <199409080358.AA22147@eden-valley>, "Rupert G. Goldie" writes:
> >
> >
> >Peter Mardahl wrote:
> >
> >I think a +19 sword is a crock, IMHO.
> >
> >--
> >Rupert 
> 
>   Maybe so, Rupert.  But they're not impossible, and quite frankly,
> how else are you going to kill a Jessy?  He's immune to all magic,
> has incredible firepower, and is immune to everything but weaponmagic.
> (He's even immune to physical, so the create bomb trick won't work.)
> You might be able to deathstrike him if you're level 60 or so.
> 
>   You can't realistically beat a strong monster without some sort of
> super weapon unless you use magic.  Right now, it's a magician's 
> game.....
> 
>   What do people think of removing all maximums to stats and simply
> having a system which uses a formula to compute bonuses instead of
> a table?
> 
> PeterM
>