A thread on finetuning Your play

[Nobbse]

What tipps and tricks do You know
for that little extra mini boost,
extra little money,
extra little chance to survive?


Let's start with one of ADOM's most 'boring' items - Leather Boots [0,0]

What to do with them?

Do You keep them as a destruction item for the once in a time bad luck hits You? Or do You even prep them up?

Me, I immediately sell them, as I want that extra money right from the beginning and I don't want to be them becoming cursed by some evil fate.

Or is there something more useful to do with them what I just do not see?

[KettlebellGuy]

The starting boots saved my wizard from taking some acid damage, early in the game. There was a door at the end of a tunnel, and the detect traps skill found an explosive trigger. I didn't have knock or disarm traps spell, so started back down the tunnel. But there was a jelly-type monster blocking the path, before the intersection. The only offensive spell I had was acid bolt, and the jelly was immune to acid damage. My archery abilities weren't good enough to kill it before it reached melee range. I didn't want to corrode my weapon, so I finished it off with a strong kick. The acid ate away my boots, but prevented me from taking contact damage.

[auricbond]

The starting boots saved my wizard from taking some acid damage, early in the game. There was a door at the end of a tunnel, and the detect traps skill found an explosive trigger. I didn't have knock or disarm traps spell, so started back down the tunnel. But there was a jelly-type monster blocking the path, before the intersection. The only offensive spell I had was acid bolt, and the jelly was immune to acid damage. My archery abilities weren't good enough to kill it before it reached melee range. I didn't want to corrode my weapon, so I finished it off with a strong kick. The acid ate away my boots, but prevented me from taking contact damage.

good one, and it's a way to remove cursed unwanted boots as well.

[Nobbse]

The starting boots saved my wizard from taking some acid damage, early in the game. There was a door at the end of a tunnel, and the detect traps skill found an explosive trigger. I didn't have knock or disarm traps spell, so started back down the tunnel. But there was a jelly-type monster blocking the path, before the intersection. The only offensive spell I had was acid bolt, and the jelly was immune to acid damage. My archery abilities weren't good enough to kill it before it reached melee range. I didn't want to corrode my weapon, so I finished it off with a strong kick. The acid ate away my boots, but prevented me from taking contact damage.

Thx for answering!

I very rarely kick, so I never thought of that, wow!

[Nobbse]

The starting boots saved my wizard from taking some acid damage, early in the game. There was a door at the end of a tunnel, and the detect traps skill found an explosive trigger. I didn't have knock or disarm traps spell, so started back down the tunnel. But there was a jelly-type monster blocking the path, before the intersection. The only offensive spell I had was acid bolt, and the jelly was immune to acid damage. My archery abilities weren't good enough to kill it before it reached melee range. I didn't want to corrode my weapon, so I finished it off with a strong kick. The acid ate away my boots, but prevented me from taking contact damage.

Thx! I do rarely kick so I never thought of that - after more than 15 years of ADoM something new .. LOL !