Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!topaz.ucq.edu.au!johnsonc From: johnsonc@topaz.ucq.edu.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: I got da Dungeon Master blues... (was RE: CHAOS AND DUNGEON MASTER) Message-ID: <1991Apr10.093619.7011@topaz.ucq.edu.au> Date: 10 Apr 91 00:43:35 GMT References: <7146.27F81052@zswamp.fidonet.org> <1991Apr5.151011.7000@topaz.ucq.edu.au> <956@iris.mincom.oz.au> Organization: University College of Central Queensland, Australia Lines: 41 In article <956@iris.mincom.oz.au>, shaun@iris.mincom.oz.au (Shaun Hayes) writes: > In article <1991Apr8.105551.7004@topaz.ucq.edu.au> johnsonc@topaz.ucq.edu.au writes: >>In article , jgreene@dorm.rutgers.edu (Jeffrey Greene) writes: >>> >>> The gem is in the ROOM OF THE GEM. Just keep looking. >> >> I still can't find it. Is there perhaps a secret passage/panel which >>could reveal it? If there is, the switch is very well hidden as I've searched >>and searched - pressing walls and poking at holes in the wall. But no dice. >>I even decided to jump down that pit to take a gander but all I had was a >>bruised party and a discovered drumstick. Am I getting close enough? >> >>signed >> >>USELESS. > > Actually, I feel the same way. I've been playing intermittently for the > last two months (_very_ intermittently), and looked around and around, > and all I could find was rock monsters (I mean it's hard enough when > every bloody time I cast a spell, whether fire ball or poison cloud (how > do you kill rock monsters anyways?) 75% of the time I get a "need more > %#$@^&^#&^$ practice" message! - I'm getting real tired of this). > > So where is the damn thing????? > I've managed to gain a Craftsman level wizard level for all of my characters on level 2 by sitting down and just casting spells at the walls. (Fireballs, Invisibility, etc) Unfortunately I don't have them anymore as I didn't save the game - it was when I was trying to find the gem. I've found the gem anyway. Thanks to everyone who has been writing. As one fellow DM'er has put it, I can "go to worm-parties" on the third level now. I'm not sure if poison spells are so effective with rock-monsters as their main weapon is poison. From my experience with having played Dungeons and Dragons, creatures who are naturally poisonous in combat have a very high resistance to poisons as they are in contact with them a lot. However I don't know if this is the case in Dungeon Master as I preferred using fireballs on the rock-monsters. Anything goes when you are battling the blue beasts. Chris.