Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Topic drift happens. No sense in being a stuffed shirt about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Yes, even a meta stuffed shirt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Our tangents have grown tangents. —Alorael, who disputes any claim that English is uniquely idiosyncratic. All languages (except recently fabricated ones) have their foibled. Yes, some more than others, and English among those, but let he who is without warped syntax cast the first gerund. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 At what point does the original topic become a tangent? Does it retain some privileged status, compared to other tangents? If so, for how long? I say, three posts and you're toast. Bringing up the original topic again is okay if you apologize for it. Otherwise, going off topic is forbidden, unless it succeeds enough to spawn a new topic. He who strikes at a king must strike to kill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Just think of the topic as a Doomguard... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Contra Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 What ever happened to those Doomguards? Haven't seen them so far in A4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 They aren't in A4, although all the scripts necessary for them to exist seem to be written for other monsters. —Alorael, who wasn't sorry not to see a Doomguard. They're more pain than fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Synergy Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 There's that slightly annoying slime in a mine by Dharmon which splits each time you kill it till there are, what, 16 of them? That caught me off guard first time I made a horde of them out of one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 There's a worm somewhere that does that too. It's significantly more annoying, since some of the worms can use elemental attacks for relatively large amounts of damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Contra Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Slime and Worms are never as resistant as Doomguards, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma Mivayan Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Quote: —Alorael, who wasn't sorry not to see a Doomguard. They're more pain than fun. Aaaaah! A doomguard! Lets everyone attack it and throw spells and arrows and summons! Lets see... one doomguard with 150 hp. Silly little summoned lizard does 1 damage. Now - TWO doomguards with 149 hp. Whack whack forever..... reload, let the slith with a big spear do it alone with some heals. At least that's what I remembered from exile. Not sure hp worked like that after dividing. How does dividing work in A4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Quote: Originally written by Mivayan:Aaaaah! A doomguard! Lets everyone attack it and throw spells and arrows and summons! Lets see... one doomguard with 150 hp. Silly little summoned lizard does 1 damage. Now - TWO doomguards with 149 hp. At least that's what I remembered from exile. Not sure hp worked like that after dividing. It did. Quote: How does dividing work in A4? Some monsters, when killed, automatically "summon" one or more weaker monsters. Occasionally these weaker monsters themselves create new monsters when killed, and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Originally by Mivayan: Quote: Aaaaah! A doomguard! Lets everyone attack it and throw spells and arrows and summons! Lets see... one doomguard with 150 hp. Silly little summoned lizard does 1 damage. Now - TWO doomguards with 149 hp. Cloud of Blades is a really bad idea too. And usually it is so helpful. Die now, Rakshasa! Doomguards (and such) were okay in tiny spaces. Once they ran out of room, they stop dividing. Then one can wack/shoot/fireball/whatever without having another creature to worry about. After killing one, make sure to attack one with little health the next round. Dikiyoba hates doomguards too. Unless you had one on your side... Quest giver: Go slay every bandit in that fortress. They're tough, though. Adventurer: Okay. I just sent a doomguard. Give me the reward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk SkeleTony Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Please people! The topic of this thread is the english language and how people like me(or should that be "people like I"?) butcher it! You are going horribly OFF-topic with this discussion of Spiderweb Software's games! Ironic? Maybe. Subtle? No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Quote: Originally written by SkeleTony:(or should that be "people like I"?) NO! It should NOT be! I HATE it when people try to hypercorrect like this! Don't do that! Sorry. I just had a fit of grammatically-inspired apoplexy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I have the same knee-jerk reaction to "I" instead of "me" even though most "me" in place of "I" mistakes don't bother me. I thnk it's because honest mistakes in English (or just not caring) don't bother me. I'm guilty myself. Pretension without actually using proper English is irritating. —Alorael, who can always avoid that by speaking in the third person. He doesn't think anyone mixes up third person subjective and objective cases, heself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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