Hello out there.... ?
This place is dead. No posts in almost 6 months? Well, let me try to stir up a little bit of activity.
I'm working on writing my own Roguelike and decided to take a break from it and play Nethack instead. (So far my RL can draw rectangular rooms and connect them and you can walk around them. That's it. And it took me 4 hours just to do that.) I rolled up a Monk.
Can anyone advise me on the best sort of armor for a Monk? I don't want to use heavy stuff and impede my Martial Arts, so I'm assuming I'm limited to robes, gauntlets, cloaks and shirts. I have a Hawaiian Shirt already, so I know to enchant that up to +7 whenever I can.
Early on, I did pretty well. I found a spellbook of Force Bolt and, let me tell you, since I'm going for weaponless Force Bolt makes an awesome replacement for ranged weapons. Too bad a fire trap burned up my spellbook for it, though. I have a magic marker and can rewrite it if I need it, though. (Only 30 charges, though, so I should probably wait until I can write out scrolls of charging.)
I converted the Minetown altar to Neutral, and ended up running from an extremely angry priest that I initially thought I could handle. Oops. Well, really, I teleported her away and got the hell off the level before she came back. Right now I'm doing Sokoban and am level 9. Completely screwed up Sokoban 3 (had to destroy boulders and create some to finish it. Ugh.) and am gonna do 4 here in a minute. (I'm hoping for Amulet of Reflection, but we'll see.) Also, just for the fun of it, I'm going for the Vegan conduct. It's not really that different from a regular Monk diet. I still think I should be able to eat Lichen, though. (But checked and was told that breaks Vegan.)
And that's that!
I'm working on writing my own Roguelike and decided to take a break from it and play Nethack instead. (So far my RL can draw rectangular rooms and connect them and you can walk around them. That's it. And it took me 4 hours just to do that.) I rolled up a Monk.
Can anyone advise me on the best sort of armor for a Monk? I don't want to use heavy stuff and impede my Martial Arts, so I'm assuming I'm limited to robes, gauntlets, cloaks and shirts. I have a Hawaiian Shirt already, so I know to enchant that up to +7 whenever I can.
Early on, I did pretty well. I found a spellbook of Force Bolt and, let me tell you, since I'm going for weaponless Force Bolt makes an awesome replacement for ranged weapons. Too bad a fire trap burned up my spellbook for it, though. I have a magic marker and can rewrite it if I need it, though. (Only 30 charges, though, so I should probably wait until I can write out scrolls of charging.)
I converted the Minetown altar to Neutral, and ended up running from an extremely angry priest that I initially thought I could handle. Oops. Well, really, I teleported her away and got the hell off the level before she came back. Right now I'm doing Sokoban and am level 9. Completely screwed up Sokoban 3 (had to destroy boulders and create some to finish it. Ugh.) and am gonna do 4 here in a minute. (I'm hoping for Amulet of Reflection, but we'll see.) Also, just for the fun of it, I'm going for the Vegan conduct. It's not really that different from a regular Monk diet. I still think I should be able to eat Lichen, though. (But checked and was told that breaks Vegan.)
And that's that!