how to open doors

[duvessa]

With LRD no longer destroying doors, it's finally time for me to reveal one of my secret techs.
Suppose you find a closed door and would like it to be open instead of closed. However, walking up to it and opening it is dangerous because there might be a monster on the other side. Additionally, it might creak and make noise.

Luckily you can solve both of these problems, and all you need is a level 4 spell and an ugly thing. Simply lead the ugly thing near the door, then cast Cause Fear and direct its fleeing into the door. The ugly thing will open the door for you without making noise and without requiring you to be next to the door.

If you do not have an ugly thing available, you can use a goblin or orc or whatever. However, this is not preferred, as fearing a goblin/orc/whatever will cause it to destroy any scrolls of blinking or teleportation that it has in its inventory.

[Rast]

I'm not going to thank for this.

[pedritolo]

I usually do something similar, but instead I cast fear on a lightning spire i made hostile by casting inner flame+killing a snake i summoned

[svendre]

That seems awfully complex.

All you need to do is polymorph a low level creature into a jelly, enslave it and order it to retreat to the door.

No spells or uhhh... ugly things hanging around required.
You could even park your jelly on a cleared level and reuse it if you wanted.
Zero noise ordering it to retreat (so even less than fear).

Personally though, I'd just rather open doors.

[Shard1697]

Aren't ugly things fast

[Doesnt]

Ugly things are fast, which is why you use a pack of them to open doors for you. When you need to get away from them, it's easy because they're constantly stopping to put on a colorful light show.

[mrbobbyg]

I feel like there's something here I'm not getting...

[Schillernde]

wouldn't it just be easier to open the door, enslave everything on the other side of the door, order them to go back into the room you came from, and also to close the door behind them. that way you don't even have to open the door.

[pedritolo]

wouldn't it just be easier to open the door, enslave everything on the other side of the door, order them to go back into the room you came from, and also to close the door behind them. that way you don't even have to open the door.

This certainly makes sense, but I believe the optimal strategy here would be a combination of all the different approaches in this thread.

[stoneychips]

Is everyone just being sarcastic here...

Or are all the "Wouldn't it be easier to just" followed by an awfully long number of steps?

Just saying!