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From: kuento@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DM 1: Rock Monsters
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Date: 15 Jan 91 22:17:02 GMT
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In article <91015.104737AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu>, <AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>      If you want to try something neat with fireballs, wait until your
> characters are almost dead.  Then cast a fireball and have your characters
> step forward into the path of the fireball, or have your characters face a
> wall and throw a fireball at the wall.  This is one hell of a way to kill
> all of the characters.

It's the method of choice! Personally, I found it more fun to put up a
set of 4 fireshields and do it - even a 400-point blast hardly does a
thing to you. This technique also can be used to prove conclusively
that lightning isn't nearly as good as a fireball, mana point for mana
point (at least at close range ;-)
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