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From: tims@mako.UUCP (Tim Stoehr)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Mild rogue flame.
Message-ID: <233@mako.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 21:20:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: mako.233
Posted: Tue Jul 24 21:20:49 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 10:10:17 EDT
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Yessirrree folks, it's flame time again.  I was playing my favorite form
of masochism today, namely rogue.  I was getting the hell bit out of me
by rattlesnakes, down to 6 strength, desperately searching for a restore
strength potion while carrying 5, count them, 5 potions of gain strength.
I then walk into a room and found a potion, quaffed it, lo and behold, it's
a restore strength.  That's great, right?  But NOOOOOOO, this is turns out
to be a party room, a nymph jumps up and "She steals 4 potions of gain
strength."  I almost die of frustration right there, but it turns out she
only took one of them.  That's good, right?  NOOOOOO!  I try to quaff the
other potions of gain strength, but it seems the
nymph bug has got me by the balls, followed quickly by the save bug.  Give
me a break!  It's bad enough rogue gives you an enema of probability
with it's ream-job generator, but its inexcusable that it's full of
game-killing bugs.  Rogue has such a potential as a good game, but instead
it's just a crock of shit.  Someone should advise the author(s) of this
game that the skill in generating a game lies not in putting it on the
edge of statistical impossibility to win, but in making it simply difficult
yet interesting to win.  Instead, all we have with rogue is a fight against
probability.  The whole games is randomly generated, look, you need the
following, or most of the following things to win.

a restore strength potion.
several gain strength potions.
a couple potions of raise level.
a protect armor scroll.
several enchant armor scrolls.
a two handed sword.
several enchant weapon scrolls.
good Hp increments on level changes.
a couple of scare monster scrolls.
a couple of teleport scrolls.
a ring of regeneration.
a ring of slow digestion.
a staff of polymorph. (well charged)
a staff of teleport away. (well charged)
several (extra) healing potions.
good luck not to waste the above items in useless situations.
incredible luck to not get confused by a medusa while being held by a flytrap,
	or any of millions of other crappers.
no nymph bug.
no save bug.

Now, how do you get these things?  PURE RANDOM CHANCE, no other way.  You
can figure out the odds of getting them, and they are astronomically small,
but the point is that it is nothing but random luck.  What bullshit.