Ziggurat Zagger
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Joined: Friday, 25th November 2011, 07:36
Rant:Yet again melee combat in crawl is too random and sucks
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Things that are here:
a club; a goblin corpse
You miss the adder. The adder closely misses you.
The adder bites you but does no damage.
You barely miss the adder. The adder closely misses you.
Health restored: 25
You closely miss the adder. The adder closely misses you.
You miss the adder. Your punch misses the adder. The adder closely misses you.
You completely miss the adder. The adder bites you but does no damage.
The adder barely misses you.
You hit the adder. The adder bites you but does no damage.
You miss the adder. The adder completely misses you.
You closely miss the adder. The adder bites you but does no damage.
You closely miss the adder. The adder closely misses you.
You closely miss the adder. The adder bites you.
You take 3 damage, and have 22/25 hp.
You miss the adder. The adder bites you. The adder bites you.
You take 3 damage, and have 19/25 hp.
You closely miss the adder. The adder bites you.
You take 3 damage, and have 16/25 hp.
You closely miss the adder. The adder misses you.
You closely miss the adder. The adder bites you.
You take 4 damage, and have 12/25 hp.
You are too injured to fight recklessly!
Your feet morph into talons. The adder bites you.
The adder misses you. The adder bites you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You take 8 damage, and have 4/25 hp.
MASSIVE DAMAGE!!
You now have 6/7 mp.
Drink which item? (? for menu, Esc to quit)
Okay, then.
You barely miss the adder. The adder barely misses you.
You punch the adder! The adder bites you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You take 2 damage, and have 2/25 hp.
You hit the adder but do no damage. Your kick misses the adder.
The adder bites you.
You die...
This was a completely solitary fight against a single adder from full health on a gargoyle. Now granted I should have cast beastly appendage at the start of the fight and not near the end. But look at my earlier fight against an adder:
Full morgue here if you want to see the log yourself: http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/tasonir/mor ... 080926.txt
I know people have argued for completely unpredictable combat because it "makes you have to be more careful" but this is completely BS.
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