Thank you ADOM: by gut

[Soirana]

. . . when I first saw the title for this topic, I thought this was going to be a I'm-leaving-the-community-thanks-for-all-the-good-times kind of topic, for some strange reason.

I am relieved to be proven wrong.

You at least have not started preparing speech on topic "we whish you well in your life without ADOM"...

[anon123]

life without ADOM

Can there be such a thing after playing the game long enough?

[Soirana]

Can there be such a thing after playing the game long enough?

Well, i mad at least two official declarations about me leaving it for good... So at least announcing can happen.

[MrNiceguy]

Every time I lose a promising game to a crash, I'm going to mentally substitute "Your character was killed by a random meteor strike."

[ScrollOfCureBlindness]

Your character was killed by a random meteor strike.

Even 40+ levels below the ground?
On the other hand gods seem to have no problem zapping you underground either, so...

[anon123]

Every time I lose a promising game to a crash, I'm going to mentally substitute "Your character was killed by a random meteor strike."

You could go the extra mile and invent more realistic messages - "He was crushed by a collapsing executable", "He was killed by vile signal 291 magic", "He was scorched by a scroll of repair" (read with an empty inventory), "He was killed by believing in the promises of getting six blessed SoCR" (saving Kelly), etc.

Even 40+ levels below the ground?
On the other hand gods seem to have no problem zapping you underground either, so...

Even worse, the bolts are said to "hurl down from the sky"

[ScrollOfCureBlindness]

"Strangled with an amulet of live saving by a sage gone mad"
"Broke his/her back trying to drop too much loot at once" (ext. drop)

[Kyreles]

holding the 'a' button for 1/10th of a second too long, thus
'a'pplying 'a'lchemy to two potions and blasting myself into the afterlife

Funny, I did that earlier today while trying to pickpocket. I had one too many 'a's in there.

This game really is great. So much of what it teaches you is secondary. I remember when trying to get my girlfriend (now fiancé) to play she would watch me at first and ask questions. Questions like "can we take the baby water dragon with us? It souds so cute." She absolutely loved the opening question system. I'd go out to smoke and she'd generate 4 new characters so she could answer the questions. She'd ask why I was killing that guy, he's just some barbarian that was hanging out and I come up to his cave and kill him. Trying to get her on board with the logic of plugging your ears with wax to get by the banshee. Hoo, that was an interesting conversation: Me: "We need to pass the banshee, but her scream is fatal. We need to deafen ourselves." Her: "Lets us our potion of deafness" Me: "We could, but it might wear off before she dies, lets go up one level where those bees were. We'll plug our ears with bee's wax." Her: "Really? Beeswax?"

There is just so much you have to know, but can only learn from experience. Banshee, ghuls, asking the dwarf about "portal". Remembering not to 'g'ive shopkeepers money, but to 'p'ay for your stuff. The list is endless and any one of them can easily kill you if you arn't prepared. And if they don't the game will crash.

[anon123]

Funny, I did that earlier today while trying to pickpocket. I had one too many 'a's in there.

You don't quick-mark your skills? The first thing I do after getting Pick Pockets from Yergius is assigning 5 to that one, 7 to First Aid and 9 to Ventriloquism.

[Silfir]

argh Pick Pockets