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From: dim@cbuxc.UUCP (Dennis McKiernan)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Wizard's Password
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 09:38:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 24 09:38:30 1984
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I see that there is interest in the Wizard's Password.
A bit of background seems to be in order:

The Wizar'ds Password lets a player become a rogue "super user."
I.e., a Wizard can create rings, charge them up to a +10000
rating, go up or down through the levels of the dungeon at will,
etc.
But, playing a game as a Wizard results in NO SCORE.
If you successfully invoke the Wizard's Password,
you can play the game...and there will be no score when you finiosh.
Even if you become the Wizard, and then in the same game return
to being your old self (i.e., "uninvoke" yourself so that you are
no longer the Wizard), you still get no score.
It's kinda fun, however, to create a ring of protection,
zap it up to a +10000 rating (then nothing can hit you),
create a ring of add damage, zap it up to +10000 (then your bare fist
will destroy anything), create food as needed, and blast the hell out of
those things that always give you trouble.
But, I ask, whatever for?
Anyway, whoever put rogue up on your machine probably knows what
that version's Wizard's Password is...if he doesn't,
then he can get up as superuser and find it and make it anything
he wants to...Merlin, Gandalf, Modru, whatever...
The Wizard is a mechanism for debugging rogue...i.e., it lets
you play with super attributes so that you can get
to the area of the game where the bug's symptoms
appear...
Incidentally, the Wizard has a special set of commands available to
him so that he can create things, etc.

So that's the story, or part of it, and now maybe most of you who
have been asking about the Wizard's Password will have had your
curiosity piqued or slaked...

                                Warrow   (ware row)

"But what about the Wolves, Will, what about the Wolves?"
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