Choose Your Spells Challenge

[Grey]

This is based on the "Choose Your Spells" thread (http://www.adom.de/forums/showthread.php?t=732) Silfir started a couple of weeks ago. The premise of the challenge is simple: start a new character of your chosen race/class and use only 5 spellbooks in the entire game. You may have multiple of the same book if you desire. Your character must primarily rely on spells to survive, so no weapon skills other than shields are allowed to go above level 8. To get the 5 spellbooks of your choice at the start it's best to ADOMBot yourself a wand of wishing and directly wish for the 5 tomes. You may not use further spellbooks found or wands/potions of wonder to get more castings, nor may you use any other spells in the game. This is a challenge to test your tactical skill with a restricted spellcaster, and how well your forethought operates in choosing spells (notably no two people chose exactly the same 5 in the other thread). Of course it's mostly about having a bit of fun...

With regards to ADOMBot, a link to it can be found elsewhere (http://www.adom.de/forums/showthread.php?t=581) in the forums, but I'll not give it right here. The process for setting up your character is simple enough:
-generate char
-run ADOMBot
-choose "auto", then "cheats", then "inventory editor"
-double-click on one of the items in your pack that you don't mind losing (such as a starting spellbook)
-scroll down the "item type" list to about halfway - inbetween the chaos orbs and the dragon scale mails you'll find the WandofWishing entry
-choose it and edit the "charges" to "5", then click "Write to ADOM memory"
-in the ADOM console wish for your 5 chosen spellbooks
-drop any spare spellbooks and the empty wand in the wilderness
-get rid of ADOMBot and start the challenge

All progress updates and discussion go in this thread, but try not to post full log files. Best of luck to everyone, and we'll see how well each of our choices of 5 spells works out.

High Score:

85661 - Grey, level 14 gray elven wizard, survived for 28031 turns
Spells: Acid Ball, Frost Bolt, Invisibility, Magic Missile, Teleportation
Killed by an invisible stalker on D15.

15190 - warheart, level 9 gray elven wizard, survived for 11891 turns
Spells: Acid Ball, Frost Bolt, Magic Missile, Teleportation, Cure Critical Wounds
Killed by a giant gnoll on UD2.

11334 - gut, level 10 gray elven wizard, survived for 1830 turns
Spells: Acid Ball, Frost Bolt, Magic Missile, Teleportation, Stun Ray
Killed by a giant ant warrior after being blinded and stunned by a door trap on D8.

3984 - meh, level 6 gray elven monk
Spells: never learnt any! (his Cure Critical Wounds critically wounded him)
Killed by a pack of blink dogs in the infinite dungeon.

3826 - Sradac, level 7 dark elven necromancer, survived for 5670 turns
Spells: Acid Ball, Cure Light Wounds, Magic Missile x 2, Teleportation
Killed by a swarm of white worms in the SMC.

???? - Soirana, high elven assassin
Spells: never learnt any
Killed by an exploding spellbook of Darkness, proving that knowledge can be deadly

[warheart]

Grey, could you please create, adombot and upload the character so everyone starts with the same save, as you suggested in the previous thread? (Yes, I'm being ultra-lazy here and would rather just pick a save than download adombot and use it :P) Thanks in advance :)

[gut]

If given the option, I would also like to start with a shared save...
so I'll roll one and post it : )

Named him gut's roll. He started with a Le stat of 15 (blah)
and I chose potent aura, strong aura, and careful as his
starting talents. If anyone would like a non-retarded wizard,
or one with treasure hunting potential, you will have to
wait for another save : )

[Ars]

But that would mean same race/class and spells for everyone, and wizards are for pussies. So no.

Otherwise too I am vary of the weapon skill restriction, because I'd just take mainly utility spells (teleportation, darkness, healing, and more teleportation) for a paladin and do the killing with real peoples weapons.

[Grey]

Heh, well, I did consider the single save thing, but all of us playing the same r/c combo might have been a bit dull, so I figured it was best to let everyone do their own thing. Anyone who wants a standard wizard may wish to use gut's handily supplied save (I'm tempted to use it myself, but I'd like to use Sage). If anyone wants something different and doesn't want to make it themselves then just say here and I'll cook up a char to match.

Edit: And regarding your point about the weapon skills, Ars, to be frank the challenge is painfully simple if you choose a barbarian and never use spells. The only way to really keep the challenge more spell-centric (without demanding pure spellcasting) is to put a simple maximum on how much you can use weapons.

[Sradac]

alright then, I dont have the bot and I prefer not to touch it, just my preference. Hook me up with a dark elf necro, 2 magic missile, 1 acid ball, 1 teleport, and 1 cure minor wounds. No treassure hunting dont need it. pick long stride and if there are any talents left use your best judgement. birthsign dosent matter either, just PLEASE dont give me unicorn or tree lol.

[gut]

> Hook me up with a dark elf necro,

Done.

> 2 magic missile, 1 acid ball,

You got a wand of wishing instead.

> No treassure hunting

Bless you! Please stay alive : )

> pick long stride

OK

> if there are any talents left use your best judgement.

I have no best judgement. You got 'quick' and 'very quick'.

> birthsign dosent matter either, just PLEASE dont give me unicorn or tree lol.

I admit I was hoping your roll would be unicorn so I could
get to say that picking your sign wasn't part of the challenge.
I'm certain that the RNG picked up on this, and worked to
counter it. You got candle!

On a seperate note, you didn't specify gender. Congratulations!
It's a boy : ) No reason really, I just had that set in my
configuration file.

[gut]

Well, I'm done! Killed by a giant ant warrior. Nothing
I could do really. I started out fine enough, got the
blanket from the SMC, exp. level 10 in BUGWIL, and was
making my way through the CoC nicely. Then I find myself
in this postition:



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For an idea of what the door did to me, just have a look
at my stats line.

Gut's roll St:14 Le:16 Wi:16 Dx:16 To:10 Ch:11 Ap:19 Ma:24 Pe:15 N=
DV/PV: 27/1 H: -1(41) P: 7(127) Exp: 10/19292 D: 8 M: 1830
Blind Stunned Burdened Coward

I couldn't zap a wand, cast spells, nothing, just die. Well,
I could have prayed (and thought about it beleive me!), but
decided against it.

Star sign: Falcon
// I blame this... somehow.

Body : uncursed black robe [+0, +1] [50s]
Right Hand : uncursed green orcish spear (+1, 1d8+2) [75s]
Left Hand : uncursed small shield [+2, +0] [50s]
Right Ring : uncursed ring of acid resistance [1s]
Boots : uncursed sandals [+0, +0] [6s]
Missiles : heap of 9 uncursed rocks (+0, 1d4) [45s]
Tool : uncursed torch (974 turns of fuel remaining, lit) [10s]

uncursed girdle of carrying [+0, +0] [15s]
// Wish I had a chance to ID this.

uncursed lawful hand axe (+0, 1d6) [50s]

uncursed waterproof blanket [10s]
uncursed climbing set [180s]
uncursed wand of door creation (4 charges) [3s]
cursed wand of webbing (3 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of monster creation (4 charges) [3s]
cursed wand of knocking (3 charges) [3s]
// Couldn't get this thing to work on the previous locked
// door, and couldn't get it to work on this one either.

uncursed wand of fire (1 charge) [4s]

uncursed spellbook of Acid Ball [100s]
uncursed spellbook of Frost Bolt [100s]
cursed spellbook of Magic Missile [100s]
uncursed spellbook of Stun Ray [100s]
uncursed spellbook of Teleportation [100s]

Pole arms 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 29
// The plan was to use only spells, but I equipped a
// spear for -acid and look what happened : )

Shields 0 +0 unskilled 28
// Almost 1.

Frost Bolt : 145, 10pp (Effectivity: +7)
Magic Missile: 86, 9pp (Effectivity: +2)
Stun Ray : 108, 8pp (Effectivity: +0)
Teleportation: 117, 20pp (Effectivity: +0)

Gut's roll, the gray elven wizard, was killed by a giant ant warrior.
He scored 11334 points and advanced to level 10.
He survived for 0 years, 12 days, 22 hours, 11 minutes and 13 seconds (1830
turns).
Gut's roll visited 12 places.
His strength score was modified by +2 during his career.
His learning score was modified by +1 during his career.
His toughness score was modified by +1 during his career.
He ended his adventuring life on level 8 of the caverns of chaos.
67 monsters perished under his attacks.
The following artifact was generated during his adventure:
the si
He possessed the following intrinsic:
He was acid resistant (gained through items).
He had the following talents: Careful, Good Book Caster, Mighty Aura, Potent
Aura, Quick, Strong Aura.
He had a final speed score of 98 (final base speed: 103).
He was religious.
He did not ask for divine help.
He was neutrally aligned.
He was slightly tainted by Chaos.

[Soirana]

just for reference, how much you can kill/do not wiith spells keeping "spirit" of challenege. Playing illiterate barb is of course off, but...
Just train spear for defense bonus or if someone founds spear of devastation...
i am inclined on elvish assasin (high elf probably) just need to check there the hell line is.

And i do not mean, whacking and posioning. I will play under "wizard rules" as much as possible. [Skiping one thing of course]

Edit: gut, i know cursed wand does not open door, but doesn't it give seperate message if door is trapped?

[Grey]

Bad luck gut - big shame that wand of knocking didn't work.

Soirana, the line should be clear enough - no individual weapon skill to go above level 8. I really recommend you choose a class with Concentration though :P And you'll want decent Mana to get the book-casting talents I'm sure.

[meh]

I suck at playing casters, so I decided to roll a GE monk. The plan is to play as a regular fighter at first and only read the books later.

Starsign is unicorn. I was going to pick the PV talents, but I don't have enough toughness for Hardy. Promising start this...

I started in the first level of the puppy cave, where there was a tension room of rats. One of them made me sick, so I went back to the spellbooks and decided to read cure critical wounds. The book exploded on the first attempt and took me down to 1 HP. I prayed twice, but didn't have enough piety to remove the sickness. I waited in the wilderness instead. There was no final attack, so I survived the sickness. I went to the ID next, where I was killed by a gang of blink dogs.

I reached level 6 and got 3984 points. And I never even learned any spells.

I noticed that there is one significant flaw in the rules for this challenge. If you attack someone on coward, then you won't gain any weapon marks, so it's possible to use melee far more than should be allowed.

[Grey]

I noticed that there is one significant flaw in the rules for this challenge. If you attack someone on coward, then you won't gain any weapon marks, so it's possible to use melee far more than should be allowed.

True enough, but I'll assume people won't abuse that. The game is about fun after all, and slowly whittling down every enemy on Coward is hardly a great way to play.

[Sradac]

wow gut that RNG really did make up for giving me candle. 13 LE??? lol I cant even read my book of magic missile!

[Sradac]

"no other spells are allowed" does this include wands that ARENT wishing/wonder like a wand of fire?

[warheart]

Died aswell. Picked gut's wizard save, wished for frost bolt, magic missile, acid ball, teleportation and cure critical wounds spellbooks, as I said in the other thread. Decided to read every book once to be able to book cast all spells, despite having 15 Le and low concentration. First book, acid ball, disappears without learning anything. Nice. Got a few levels, a nice +3 Le ring from a shop, and lost frost bolt and tele books to a water trap. Extremely nice. Pissed enough I just don't pay attention and die meleing a large gnoll in UD2.

15190 GEWizard. L9 gray elven wizard (M). 15333 xps. 11891 turns.

[Grey]

Man, dropping like flies here...

Sradac, all wands other than wonder are fine to use and recharge as you please.

[Sradac]

Well there goes sradacjr! Cleared the VD but didnt kill the carpenter. killed the healer and got healing. Was in SMC making my way to UD when a horde of white worms well above my level got the best of me. heres a quick snippit. Only left stuff in that was relevant, Spellbooks left, nice items I found, weapon skills, etc. I have the full flg whenever its needed. Note the reason for being such a low level, I had my slaves clear most of the tension rooms for me. had a level 12 orc ghul and level 8 bugbear zombie. both were taken down FAST by the worms.


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Sradacjr St:13 Le:12 Wi:15 Dx:20 To:13 Ch: 1 Ap: 8 Ma:19 Pe:16 C
DV/PV: 12/1 H: -1(50) P: 2(68) Exp: 7/5532 SMC Sp: 91
Strained!
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Stuff
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Total weight: 1691 stones Carrying capacity: 1300 stones

One-handed weapons ('(')
uncursed crystal dagger (+0, 2d3+4) [25s]
Tools (']')
cursed waterproof blanket [10s]
Wands ('\')
uncursed wand of digging (0 charges) [3s]

Books ('"')
uncursed spellbook of Acid Ball [100s]
uncursed spellbook of Cure Light Wounds [100s]
uncursed spellbook of Magic Missile [100s]
uncursed spellbook of Teleportation [100s]


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Weapon Skills
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Melee weapon Lvl Hit Dam DV Level Required marks
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Daggers & knives 2 +2 +0 +0 basic 72
Staves 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 13

Missile weapon Lvl Hit Dam Ra Level Required marks
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Slings 0 +0 +0 +0 unskilled 7
Bows 2 +4 +3 +0 basic 26



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Spells
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Acid Ball : 18, 63pp (Effectivity: +0)
Cure Light Wounds: 97, 5pp (Effectivity: +1)
Magic Missile : 55, 10pp (Effectivity: +5)
Teleportation : 197, 22pp (Effectivity: +0)





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His achievements during his adventures:
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Sradacjr, the dark elven necromancer, was killed by a white worm.
He scored 3826 points and advanced to level 7.
He survived for 0 years, 9 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes and 3 seconds (5670
turns).
2 companions were killed during his adventures.
Sradacjr visited 9 places.
His strength score was modified by +1 during his career.
His learning score was modified by -1 during his career.
His willpower score was modified by -2 during his career.
His appearance score was modified by -2 during his career.
His mana score was modified by -1 during his career.
He ended his adventuring life in a small cave.
He possessed the following intrinsic:
He was acid resistant (gained through items).
He had the following talents: Greased Lightning, Long Stride, Potent Aura,
Quick, Very Quick.




oh well, back to crawl for now!! my deep elf wizard is kickin but. my one complaint about crawl?? no wheres NEAR enough scrolls of ID!!! I see after m y chars died they had so many nice rings and amulets i coulda used but had no idea what they were. my last human crusader had an artifact ring and i didnt even know it.

[gut]

> cursed wand does not open door, but doesn't it give seperate message if door is trapped?

Who knows!? I was in such frustration I probably flew into a panic
and zapped the wand at myself. I really just shouldn't have let
myself get in a situation like that. My ADOM-fu is at an all time
low.

I laughed my head off at warheart's book woes : )

[Soirana]

can't we just bless books in AdomBot? Cause i will keep them unread untill i will bless them otherwise.

[Grey]

can't we just bless books in AdomBot? Cause i will keep them unread untill i will bless them otherwise.

Well if we wanted to be really regimental we could have all books blessed and set with the same number of charges/readings in ADOMBot. However every challenge needs a bit of chaos, and in this you get whatever the luck of the draw serves in your wish. With your non-spellcaster I'm sure you'll be wanting to hold out a while anyway before trying to read - enough time to get the necessary holy water.

I've finally got some free time to start on this challenge myself - expect a death report shortly.

[vogonpoet]

I too hope to kill a guts_roll soon :) Might take a while though - spare time bit of a premium right now

[Grey]

Okay, so decided to go with the traditional grey elven wizard. Started with Le 19 and To 7 - pretty normal. Went with spellbooks of Frost Bolt, Magic Missile, Acid Ball, Invis and Teleportation (as I said in the other thread). Only read the Frost Bolt and Invis to start with - saving the others till later. Starting Talents were Long Stride and Potent/Strong Aura (I'll be going for the bookcasting talents obviously).

Started out getting the Terinyo quests, then nipped to the bandit town where I stole a cloak of defense and studded leather armour. Stupidly realised that was a mistake when Yergius refused to teach me pickpocketing - oh well, don't need it anyway. Went to the SMC but couldn't find the blanket, so I stashed my books in the bandit town. At this point I notice that my screen size is oddly set at 30 rows... oh well, shouldn't make too much difference hopefully.

Went ID-scumming for a blinkie corpse, getting to level 7 in the process. St and To increased a few points in the mean time, and Le went up by 2 thanks to a comfy chairs room effects. Then decided to dive through the UD for a bit of fun. Forge UD3, trap room + ants UD4, grey altar UD5. Found I have a brutal adamantium mace and a whip of mayhem - nice. A bit of patience and I got a precrowning - Wyrmlance. Could be worse I guess. Will proceed shortly... Current status:


Magus St:16 Le:21 Wi:15 Dx:17 To:10 Ch: 9 Ap:20 Ma:18 Pe:19 N+
DV/PV: 28/7 H: 48(53) P: 127(127) Exp: 12/44252 UD: 5 Sp: 91
Bloated Coward

[vogonpoet]

Took gut's save, wished for magic missile * 3, ice ball and teleport, read one magic missile once, got blanket, killed Kranach, got slain by stone block trap in UD.

Tried again just for fun (with same save, no adombot skillz) but this time wanted to go for 4 x magic missile, 1 teleport, using magic missile as only method for dealing damage. Not doing too badly, but with the crappy learning, I don't think 4 books is going to be enough to complete the game - I will need pretty high effectivity in magic missile in the mid-late game - like up in the 30-40s ideally, and I just don't seeing it happening, even if I now wait for ages, somehow kill oracle (dangerous with bolt spell only), steal crown of science (also tricky), bless my books, I suspect it just won't be enough... will see how it goes though.

First reading only got me 150 castings though, so not very hopeful... PC level 9 at moment.

[Sradac]

bah why is grey the only one having good luck with this challenge so far. no fair.

[Grey]

Cause I didn't go into the SMC at level 7, or rush off to the CoC with my starting equipment. Slow and careful wins the race :P

As a little update I've been to HMV and dived down to Dwarftown, avoiding unecessary fights. Got a few herbs in the Big Room, but could only stabilise a morgia/moss square. Dwarftown prices are hideous, so I'm relying on HMV for cash. Don't have the patience for extensive herb farming or another precrown, so might just get on with the game. To is still just 10 though, with its potential at the same level! Curse these grey elves! Will soon eat the oracle and nab the crown of science, and when I have enough holy water I'll give all the books their final read (after that book-casting all the way).

[gut]

Haven't your recent challenge PC's all died from game crashes or
insta-deaths? Khelly crashes, ingot woes, or perhaps the emperor
moloch will get another chance hit at the right moment. I don't
know how it's going to happen, but it's GOING to happen. Personally,
I'm betting on Fisty flying into a blind rage and criticalling himself
to death, and right after doing the same to you : )

[Soirana]

Okay, my poor High elven assassin was killed with exploding book of Darkness. Being born in month of Book did not helped a tiny bit.

[vogonpoet]

Thats a pretty fine death Soirana for a spellbook-related challenge. Well played

/seriously, I like it.

[gut]

It wasn't even acid ball, it was DARKNESS!
That's hilarious!

[Grey]

Well done Soirana, a true hero's death. Y'know you were right when you said playing a wizard would be too easy... but I think you went too far the other way :P

[gut]

Might I just ask what is soooo easy about playing wizards?
I killed mine rather efficiently I think, and I'm not the only one : )

[Sradac]

Well done Soirana, a true hero's death. Y'know you were right when you said playing a wizard would be too easy... but I think you went too far the other way :P

nah if he wanted a REAL challenge he woulda been a troll barbarian born under unicorn!

[Passionario]

Pentavia, Wand-born GE Priest
Spellbooks: Rain of Sorrow, Ethereal Bridge, Veil of the Gods, Nether Bolt, Knowledge of the Ancients

The plan is to bookcast all the way through the game (priestly discounts should help with that), using memorized charges only for problematic areas like ToEF and Air Temple.

Current progress: Levelled to 10, acquired teleport control, and made it to Dwarftown without losing any of the books in process.

[mike]

Hey... longtime listener, first time caller. No, um... I used to post in the hof years ago, and I've been browsing since I just started playing again. Trying this challenge out and I just wanted to report in. :)

I rolled a hurthling necromancer just for the hell of it, using frost bolt, mm, farsight, teleport, and cure critical. Going necromancer is probably going to make things harder, although on tough levels I might be able to frost bolt through a lich or something. Learned the two attack spells and cure critical and ran through the smc, getting lucky by finding two shields. Right now at exp level 14, having done UD and the carpenter quest. So far the strategy is working out (regular casting just enough to get +10 power, lowering book casting by 6 pp). Food was a serious concern due to low str and book casting. At one point, I had to drink a potion of exchange to avoid starving. BUT... I've just picked up an ordinary ring, so things are looking up. :)

[Grey]

Well I'm dead. I blame lack of hit points... with a touch of stupidity... Got killed by an invisible stalker after just passing the animated forest. Was simply trying to find out which direction it was in to Frost Bolt it, but it got a couple of lucky hits and killed me. Should have just teleported away... Mitigating factor was a lot of equipment destruction had left me with just 4 PV. Ah well... Character details:



Magus St:16 Le:29 Wi:21 Dx:26 To:15 Ch:12 Ap:21 Ma:22 Pe:24 N-
DV/PV: 18/4 H: -11(79) P: 73(182) Exp: 14/90260 D: 15 Sp: 83
Invisible Strained!

Head : cursed mithril cap [+0, +2] [40s]
Neck : -
Body : -
Girdle : -
Cloak : -
Right Hand : uncursed crystal dagger (+0, 2d3+4) [25s]
Left Hand : uncursed wooden shield [+3, +1] [80s]
Right Ring : blessed ring of damage [1s]
Left Ring : uncursed ring of acid resistance [1s]
Bracers : -
Gauntlets : -
Boots : uncursed heavy boots [-1, +1] [30s]
Missile weapon: uncursed short bow (+1, +2) [20s]
Missiles : bundle of 22 blessed arrows (+0, 1d6+1) [44s]
Tool : -

Acid Ball : 274, 28pp (Effectivity: +1)
Frost Bolt : 258, 8pp (Effectivity: +12)
Invisibility : 277, 6pp (Effectivity: +12)
Magic Missile: 8, 10pp (Effectivity: +12)
Teleportation: 134, 17pp (Effectivity: +7)

Magus, the gray elven wizard, was killed by an invisible stalker.
He scored 85661 points and advanced to level 14.
He survived for 0 years, 48 days, 14 hours, 33 minutes and 28 seconds (28031
turns).

[gut]

> Well I'm dead.

Best orgasm I've had in a decade.
Seriously though, your Le stat was great. With a few more
HP's you probably would have gon on to win.

[Grey]

This is why I play gnomes and drakelings rather than gray elves :P To potential of 10? That was crippling. With gnomes especially it's easy to get the Le stat up high. Ah well, live and learn - or die and learn, which is the ADOM way...

[Passionario]

Pentavia has completed Thundarr's non-portal quests (got giant bat as the first one) and reached level 13 in process. Unfortunately, she lost one of the spellbooks to a well-placed fireball trap. Fortunately, it was KotA, which proved to be largely useless (I should've picked a second bolt book instead).

[Grey]

Looking good. How useful are you finding the 4 spells you have? Do you use melee/missiles much?

[Sradac]

so book casting trains MA quite a bit I know since you gotta regen all that pp, does it train Le also?

[vogonpoet]

Nah, gotta be book learning to learn yer Learning methinks...

Unless your Le stat is rubbish, spellbooks of Darkness aren't going to help very much either... Learn Deathray or Petrification, and expect the stat to increase maybe...

Otherwise stick to gemology and cannibalism.

[mike]

I've gotten a little bored with this game to be honest. Very little chance of dying (currently contemplating the pyramid while herb farming), just everything takes so LONG. I find myself walking around small mobs instead of killing them. Still, I may come back to Fivebooks the necromancer at another time.

[Grey]

Yeah, maybe wasn't the most exciting of ideas, since spellcasters can easily win the game if they need to. Maybe it would be better if we redid it in a couple of months with IronMan rules. No herb-scumming and a constant increase in monster difficulty should make things more fun :)

[Passionario]

Pentavia was laid low by Signal 291. :(

In retrospect, if I had to do this challenge again, I'd pick two Acid Balls, two Frost Bolts and a single Teleportation, read one copy of Ball/Bolt to tatters (to have enough charges for tight spots/efficiency training), and bookcast from the rest.