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guys i've got a question.. is age in ADOM significant? i mean what happens when your character gets too old?

[Eagle of Fire]

If your character get "too" old he dies.

You can prevent that by finding and drinking potions of youth.

Obviously, you can't really die from age with a high longevity race such an elf, who can live several hundred years. Unless you really get hit by undeads often in your journey.

The race in danger of dying early from aging is the Trolls who don't live very long.

I beleive you also start to lose stats such as Endurance and Agility when you get close to your age death.

It is all written in the online manuals of ADOM too. Just type '?' while in the game and you'll get some good written manuals to help you.

Most greater undead monsters (capital G) have attacks that cause your character to age considerably. Trolls, Orcs, and Humans should be careful around them (as they live less than 100 years), and should carry potions of youth or have them made available on-demand. The Alchemy skill allows you to make potions of youth, if you have the ingredients.

The other end of the age spectrum is life expectancy. Eating quickling king/queen/lord corpses is one way to shorten your character's life expectancy, although the speed increase makes eating them worthwhile in most cases. Your character isn't aged; he or she just won't live as long.

I suggest you consult the ADoM guidebook, which is found at www.andywlms.com/adom/adomgb-toc.html

[Eagle of Fire]

Arrrgh... Just lost a nice char here... Got killed by a stupid Vortex, and it just had to bring me directly to 0 hp! Not 1 or -10, 0. :angry:

I felt like this char has a very good potential to get far. I had a lot of nice spells too, including teleportation and the ability to control teleportation...

Aeryn (k), the gray elven wizard, was frozen to death by an ice storm.
She scored 76891 points and advanced to level 12.
She survived for 0 years, 20 days, 4 hours, 0 minutes and 55 seconds (19419 turns).
Aeryn (k) visited 31 places.
Her strength score was modified by +5 during her career.
Her learning score was modified by +1 during her career.
Her dexterity score was modified by +1 during her career.
Her toughness score was modified by +2 during her career.
Her mana score was modified by +3 during her career.
Her perception score was modified by +2 during her career.
She ended her adventuring life on level 9 of the caverns of chaos.
999 monsters perished under her attacks.
The following artifact was generated during her adventure:
* the si
She possessed the following intrinsics:
* She was fire resistant (gained through an item).
* She was acid resistant.
* She was able to control teleportation.
She had the following talents: Alert, Careful, Healthy, Master Packager,
Miser, Porter, Treasure Hunter.
She had a final speed score of 92 (final base speed: 102).
She was religious.
She asked for 1 divine intervention.
She was neutrally aligned.
She was slightly tainted by Chaos.

One artifact? You should have got her precrowned. If you found a reliable source of herbs in the UD with an altar, you could have quickly got her precrowned at least twice.

This version of ADoM is going to be obsolete pretty soon...

Current stats:
Minerva, level 21 Grey Elven Wizard
Fire Resistant (enhanced through an item)
Poison Resistant (enhanced through an item)
Cold Resistant (enhanced through an item)
Acid Resistant
Lucky (enhanced through items)
Fate Smiles Upon Her (enhanced through an item)
Sleep Resistant (gained through an item)
Able to Control Teleportation
Intrinsically Invisible
Stun Resistant
Resistant to Death Rays (enhanced through an item)
Shock Resistant (gained through items)
Naturally regenerates one hit point every 45 turns
Naturally regenerates one mana point every 23 turns

This is the lastest version, although the offical web site says he's back to working on it again. ( Spliting his time between JADE, a java adom, and the Original).

Offical web site ADOM Central - the offical Ancient Domain Of Mystery website

There is also a news group for this great game.

rec.games.roguelike.adom

Hope this is useful to someone

[Eagle of Fire]

Sorry, but I have no idea what precrowned is. I thought it was really further in the game, and I never got really further than past 3-4 levels under Dwarftown... I always get killed there by a way or another...

Precrowning gives you a random non-guaranteed artifact. There are three requirements for precrowning:

1. Must be at L, C, or N-/N+.
2. Sacrifice until you get the message "[Deity] feels extremely close to you."
3. L>=8+(3*A) where L=character's level and A=artifacts generated.

Once you get the "extremely close message," Pray to your god.

Until you get precrowned, do not enter the gremlin cave, CoC level 8, Darkforge level 2, or the bottom floor of the RotHK dungeon. Entering these locations generates a guaranteed artifact and forces you to wait longer to be precrowned.

Anyone tried eating the corpse of a karmic dragon?
It rocks

[Eagle of Fire]

Karmic dragon color-changing D Karmic being, breathes various bolts, immune to elemental attacks Karmic being Can smash doors

I don't really know what you wanted to point out here, but as far as I am concerned eating a karmic being is not something advisable to do...