Re: same mistake again? [V] [YACD]

Sir Chewbury Gubbins <choobs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> Eddie Grove wrote:
> > pete m <pmac360@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >
> >> Eddie grove wrote:
> >>> I started taking notes.  Maybe I'll write them up if I manage a win.
> >>> Down to 1450' on the second trip, maintaining Turns * .02 < Depth in
ft.
> >>> I returned at cLevel 20 when I didn't detect a way down to the next
dLevel.
> >> Since you are playing ranger, you can _really_ dive fast once you
find
> >> Mordenkainen's Escapes, and that really useful Create Stair spell...
> > I didn't make it that far.
> > I got a little careless.  I was picking up the loot from a tasty pack
of
> > novices, in a lit corridor.  A ghoul stepped into the corridor, got a
double
> > move, and used it to paralyze me from afar.  Had I detected monsters,
I would
> > have fled via ?telLevel.  Another avoidable death.
> 
> I once had a conversation with a WoW playing friend that went along
those
> lines. It was the usual Zangband tale of woe and misadventure (involving
my
> character being down to 1HP and being killed by an insect swarm), full
of all
> the things I *could* have done if I was equipped with half an ounce of
sense
> instead of a +2 broadsword. Anyway, he was sitting goggle eyed at the
> intricate detail of the scenario and went ru****ng off to google to find
out
> where to download the awesome WoW-cru****ng game I was talking about.
> 
> You can imagine what happened next.

He told you that you should have used a +3 broadsword?


Eddie