Guidebook work

[gut]

> Do you still get full exp. from killing them after offering peace?

You used to be able to do that with shopkeepers! That was
a really quick way to beef up a PC, but it's no longer possible.
Shopkeepers no longer accept peace as far as I know.

[Sian]

on learning Smithing on Glod, theres no difference on the price (steep 10500g) weather my current female Troll Wizard asks with 11 app, or she's wearing +16 app (+4 helm of beauty, +4 pendent of beauty and gorgeous clothes) ticking in at 27 app (i'd say thats quite decent for a troll )

[koeteren]

Necromancer got Black Tome of Alsophacus as pre crowning gift.

This is not mentioned as a possible gift in the guide book. Also necromancers may enter the drakelor chain with a tract of chaos instead of a book of frostbolt.

[Grey]

There's a difference between crowning and precrowning gifts. Precrown gifts are just random artifacts, and can be any of the 24 different random artifacts in the game. Any class can get the black tome from a precrown.

[FantomFang]

Keriax - in the monster section - does not always give the noted increases. I was under the impression that if it was in parentheses, it was conditional on the current stat, and if it was not, it was a flat increase regardless.

[quik]

In appendix J (Monsters), the Ankheg corpse makes you throw up (even to orcs, I don't know trolls), in addition to -Acid.

[Ascaron]

In appendix B, you say that pickaxes are "? probably iron". They are identified by the metallurgy skill as being "made from something other than metal." I've also checked that scapels are definitely iron (you have a ? next to them).

Also later in appendix B, you mention a weapon suffix "of poisoning". Neither I nor Soirana have ever seen a weapon with this suffix, and I cannot find it anywhere on houeland's list of wished-for weapons.

[Grey]

Pick axes certainly behave like iron in game, which is surely more important than what the metallurgy skill tells us. They corrode, melt, etc just like any ordinary iron weapon. I suppose the important questions are can they rust, and can they be smithed up with iron ingots?

[Ascaron]

I suppose the important questions are can they rust, and can they be smithed up with iron ingots?

No and no.

[Silfir]

The Manual lists Fighters as receiving the Swimming skill. Every fighter I had yet got Swimming to start with. A High Elven Fighter just now got Swimming. Still it's not listed in the respective Guidebook page regarding classes and their skills.