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Post by hallucination on Aug 4, 2023 20:40:12 GMT
Dervish Stone Dice allocated for stats. 3rd attempt. Used champskees’ guide. Victory!
(1st time around, average stats and death by a Skill roll failure; 2nd time, amazing stats and death by a ‘roll D6, 6=death’; both of those attempts, stats by dice as they fell.)
Skill 12, stamina 15, luck 12
Items/notes: 17 gold, Potion of Fortune [x], 2 meals, Control Human Potion, glass capsules [x], glass eye, magic sword [x], throwing knife [x], boots of leaping, sword, bag of sand
Fights won: Night Ghoul, Orc (2 hits), Giant Hawk, Dervish, 2x Crab Spiders. |
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Post by a moderator on Aug 5, 2023 23:16:42 GMT
A little under 24 hours to get in results for week 31.
Week 32
The Forest of Doom (4 dice)
Blood of the Zombies (2 dice (and you can add 20 to the roll, for all the difference that’ll make))
Please state if you use a guide, if you allocate dice at character creation rather than taking them as they fall, or if you make more than one attempt at a book.
Only combats which you win should be included in the list of enemies defeated.
I can’t see many people going for Blood of the Zombies, so to make things a bit more interesting, this week the bonus for winning fights will be handled differently. All players will score a bonus point for every 5 fights won (rounded down), and large groups of opponents in Blood count as one fight for every 10 enemies in the mob (rounded up).
Opponents only count once in The Forest of Doom: if you pass through section 98, any fights that you repeat on subsequent passes through the forest should not be included in your total of battles won.
In Blood of the Zombies, list groups fought - something like:
2 Zombies
8 Zombies
3 Zombies
4 Zombies
15 Rats
2 Zombies
1 Zombie
12 Zombies
(etc)
Each fight will count as one 'kill'.
Also note any Zombies that die without you fighting them, but please clearly indicate that they don't count as combats won.
Closeness to victory (let's be honest, the odds of anyone getting the full victory bonus for this book are negligible) will be determined based on how long you stayed on the 'true path'.
For example, player A takes a lot of damage fighting the Rats, and doesn't have enough Stamina left to get through the mob of a dozen Zombies. Player B avoids the Rats (and, consequently, the Zombie duo that follows them), and is healthy enough to kill the gang of 12 and several more Zombies afterwards. Player A is closer to victory despite dying earlier, because player B skipped an essential encounter. On the other hand, player B has a higher kill count.
Week 30 scoring
1st= evilwizard – 17 (stats bonus 2 + victory bonus 10 + most fights won bonus 5)
1st= terrysalt – 17 (stats bonus 2 + closest to victory bonus 5 + most fights won bonus 5 + acquisitiveness bonus 5)
3rd: kieran – 16 (stats bonus 1 + victory bonus 10 + acquisitiveness bonus 5)
4th: hallucination - 12 (stats bonus 2 + victory bonus 10)
5th: kalieum - 2 (stats bonus 2)
For the acquisitiveness bonus in TWoFM, section 400's mention of 'At least a thousand Gold Pieces' suggests that evilwizard accumulated 50GP in addition to the Warlock's treasure, the Eye of the Cyclops, the earrings and the crucifix. Since Kieran had 69GP plus the treasure, the Eye and the earrings, and the crucifix is only worth 4GP, he wins by 15GP.
Running totals
1st: evilwizard - 437
2nd: terrysalt - 419
3rd: hallucination - 394
4th: King Gillibran - 272
5th: kieran - 119
6th: peasantscribbler - 76
7th: kalieum - 50
8th: juniorhornet - 44
9th: nathanh – 33
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Post by terrysalt on Aug 6, 2023 1:33:30 GMT
What are the rules surrounding grenades in Blood? The Champskees guide seems to treat them as only being usable when directly instructed in the text but my copy contains no such rule. Was this added in the reprints that increased the starting stamina?
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Post by a moderator on Aug 6, 2023 2:01:40 GMT
I haven't seen the reprints, so I can't say what was changed in them. There was a little discussion of grenades later on in the solution thread. The ruling suggested here seems reasonable to me. |
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Post by terrysalt on Aug 6, 2023 3:26:57 GMT
Blood of the Zombies
Stamina: 28
Guide: Yes
Assigned Stats: Obviously not
Attempts: 1
Items: Hendrix bag, small penknife (d6-2), $65, key 9, steel pulley, hacksaw, sports clothes, baseball bat (d6), 8 boxes of bullets, tongs, rope, grappling hook, crowbar (d6), pistol (d6+2), 0 hand grenades (2d6+1), gold locket, shotgun (d6+5), 7 boxes of shotgun shells, brass key 111, axe (d6), car keys
Fights: 2 zombies, 8 zombies, 3 zombies, 4 zombies, 15 mutant sewer rats, 2 zombies, 1 zombie, 12 zombies, 17 zombies, 2 zombies
Info: combination lock 181
I held out as long as I could but was brought down by a group of 19 zombies, not sure if it counts for scoring but I killed 11 of them before I died.
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Post by hallucination on Aug 11, 2023 20:07:02 GMT
The Forest of Doom Dice as they fell (all 5s!). 1st attempt. No guide. Victory!
Skill 11, stamina 22, luck 11
Items/notes: Provisions (10 remain); Potion of Fortune; map; gold pieces (36 remain); holy water; armband of strength; glove of missile dexterity; garlic buds; Hammer handle; belladonna; dust of levitation; Hammer head
Fights won: goblin |
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Post by a moderator on Aug 11, 2023 22:37:46 GMT
The Forest of Doom Dice as they fell (all 5s!). 1st attempt. No guide. Victory!
Skill 11, stamina 22, luck 11
Items/notes: Provisions (10 remain); Potion of Fortune; map; gold pieces (36 remain); holy water; armband of strength; glove of missile dexterity; garlic buds; Hammer handle; belladonna; dust of levitation; Hammer head
Fights won: goblin With that Skill I'm surprised you didn't get into more fights to take advantage of the revised 'bonus points for kills' rule. I only got 9 Skill for my attempt, and I still racked up 18 fights won on my way to victory. |
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Post by a moderator on Aug 12, 2023 23:01:14 GMT
A little under 24 hours to get in results for week 32.
Week 33
Crystal of Storms (4 dice)
Fangs of Fury (4 dice)
Please state if you use a guide, if you allocate dice at character creation rather than taking them as they fall, or if you make more than one attempt at a book.
Only combats which you win should be included in the list of enemies defeated.
Week 31 scoring
1st: terrysalt – 17 (stats bonus 2 + victory bonus 10+ most fights won bonus 5) 8k D
2nd: kieran – 9 (stats bonus 4 + most fights won bonus 5) 10k E
3rd: hallucination - 7 (stats bonus 1 + victory bonus 10 – replay penalty 4)
4th: evilwizard – 5 (stats bonus 5)
Running totals
1st: evilwizard - 442
2nd: terrysalt - 436
3rd: hallucination - 401
4th: King Gillibran - 272
5th: kieran - 128
6th: peasantscribbler - 76
7th: kalieum - 50
8th: juniorhornet - 44
9th: nathanh – 33
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Post by terrysalt on Aug 13, 2023 0:38:26 GMT
Fangs of Fury
Skill: 12
Stamina: 16
Luck: 8
Guide: Yes
Assigned Stats: No
Attempts: 1
Items: 5 gold, 13 black cubes, 7 provisions, 11 white cubes, triangle 15, key, mushroom 50, circle 27, cube 22, cross 39, crescent 75, wand
Fights: goblin guard, 2 orcs, mage warrior
Info: gain d6 white cubes if they're pictured, xen religion, 247 has alphabet code, lock 18
I won without any difficulty. The hardest part was actually trying to roll a double to cross a chasm which took me 9 tries.
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Post by King Gillibran on Aug 13, 2023 15:30:49 GMT
Forest of Doom
Skill 7
Stamina 14
Luck 7
Assigned stats yes
Guide no
Kills goblin, 2 wild hill men
I challenged myself to beat it with minimum stats. It was very easy.
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Post by evilwizard on Aug 13, 2023 17:58:41 GMT
Forest of Doom Skill 11
Stamina 21
Luck 12
Items: Map, 74 Gold Pieces, Potion of Fortune, Armband of Strength, Headband of Concentration, Garlic Buds, Ring of Light, Boots of Leaping, Net of Entanglement, Potion of Anti-Poison, Eye of Amber, Magic Helmet, Belladonna, Dust of Levitation, Silver Key, Potion of Strength, Dragons Tooth, Hammer Head (G) / Nose Filters, Gauntlet of Weapon Skill, Brass Flute, 2 Maggot-Ridden Biscuits, Necklace of Mouse Skulls, Potion of Weapon Skill, Hammer Handle (G), Silver Box, Bracelet of Skill, Lantern, Golden Winged Helmet
Kills: Treeman, Fish Man, First Wild Hill Man, Second Wild Hill Man, Ghoul, Bandit, First Pair Bandit A, First Pair Bandit B, Second Pair Bandit A, Second Pair Bandit B / First Hobgoblin, Second Hobgoblin, Sting Worm, Ogre, Goblin, Ape Man, Giant Spider, Forest Giant, First Death Hawk, Second Death Hawk, Third Death Hawk
1 attempt with 2 circuits through the forest (1st time / 2nd time for items and kills), no guide, no allocation, victory
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kieran
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Posts: 2,560
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Aug 13, 2023 19:58:22 GMT
Blood of the Zombies St29
Blown up by a grenade. Pretty sure I missed a few zombies around the staircases anyway.
Kills
2 Zombies
8 Zombies
3 Zombies
4 Zombies
15 Rats
2 Zombies
12 Zombies
16 Zombies
Zombie Tally: 47
Weapons:
Pen-Knife
Baseball Bat
Crowbar
Pistol
Grenades (both used)
Shotgun
Axe
Items:
Bag
String
Key (9)
Matches
Marker Pen
Rubber Gloves
Hack Saw
Magnifying Glass
Fish Hook
Glue
Bullets (many)
Tongs
Rope and Grapple
Golden Locket
Paper (combination 181)
Shotgun Shells (many)
Watch
Glasses
Paper (333)
Wallet
Money:
6 Dollars
Other:
Yurr Ext 121 |
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Post by a moderator on Aug 19, 2023 23:05:59 GMT
A little under 24 hours to get in results for week 33.
Week 34
The Eye of the Dragon (4 dice)
Clash of the Princes - The Warlock's Way (6 dice – usual stats plus Magic)
Please state if you use a guide, if you allocate dice at character creation rather than taking them as they fall, or if you make more than one attempt at a book.
Only combats which you win should be included in the list of enemies defeated.
Week 32 scoring
1st= evilwizard – 15 (stats bonus 1 + victory bonus 10 + kills bonus 4)
1st= King Gillibran – 15 (stats bonus 5 + victory bonus 10)
3rd: hallucination - 11 (stats bonus 1 + victory bonus 10)
4th: terrysalt – 9 (stats bonus 2 + closest to victory bonus 5 + kills bonus 2)
5th: kieran – 4 (stats bonus 2 + kills bonus 2)
Running totals
1st: evilwizard - 457
2nd: terrysalt - 445
3rd: hallucination - 412
4th: King Gillibran - 287
5th: kieran - 132
6th: peasantscribbler - 76
7th: kalieum - 50
8th: juniorhornet - 44
9th: nathanh – 33
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Post by terrysalt on Aug 20, 2023 0:13:21 GMT
For the closest to victory bonus with Eye of the Dragon, are the keys considered to be necessary for the true path? You technically don't need any of them since you can just choose the weapons in the correct order without receiving any of the clues but the solution is assuming you go for at least 4 of them (at which point you can easily deduce the final clue). So I figured I should get clarification before I start playing.
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Post by a moderator on Aug 20, 2023 0:51:54 GMT
It would be a bit cheaty to just 'guess' the correct sequence, so yes, collecting keys is required.
In fact, I'll base the victory bonus for Eye on the number acquired of the keys that unlock clues to the weapon-pulling sequence. Should you succeed at the book, you get 1 point if you only got one of the keys, 3 for two of them, 6 for three, and the full 10 for four or more.
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Post by terrysalt on Aug 20, 2023 2:53:51 GMT
Eye of the Dragon Skill: 10 Stamina: 20 Luck: 7 Guide: Yes Assigned Stats: No Attempts: 1 Items: 74 gold, 4 provisions, piece of mirror, healing potion, crystal dagger, crystal pendant, iron key 34, magical iron breastplate, silver key 14, gold key 325, staff of thunder, bronze shield, copper key 192, 3 silver coins, brass bell, silver armband, picklock, Skullsplitter sword, emerald eye Fights: 3 giant rats, giant spider, gremlin, 2 skeletons, 3 niblicks, uglukk orc, uglukk orc (3 rounds), 2 thieves, Verminspawn Info: Azang Bazang-zang - hole in the wall Yeah, I didn't beat the gigantis. I did at least hit it once before I died though.  |
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Post by hallucination on Aug 20, 2023 12:04:05 GMT
Crystal of Storms Dice allocated. 1st attempt. No guide. Killed by the Wraithfish Skill 10, stamina 15, luck 9 Items/notes: home island Cumulus; Gold pieces (6); short sword; healing potion; Dav [x]; calming potion; healing honey [x]; dried fish [x]; dried cuttlefish [x]; ornate dagger; silk cloth; 2x dried stink fruit [x]; Methedus’s shard; aeronaut’s helmet; 2x ears of corn [x]; fire oil; Incus ledger - Commander Mathias Talliman; corrosive grapes; War-Hammer; healing potion; 2x cabbage leaves [x]; hand axe; calming potion; crab pincer; crab meat [x]; brass button; fire oil; dried fruit [x]; Wotsit [x]; Thingie [x]; calamari [x]; conductive gland
Codewords: Hazi, Bubble, Renard, Boreas, Rescue
Fights won: Cockroach Queen; Tunneller Beast; Lightning Serpent; Rabid Rat Horde; Chest Creature; Grapes of Wrath; Marauding Dragon Fruit Tree; Scarecrow; Giant Crab; Octoman; First and Second Harpy; First and Second Wheelie; Howl Cat; Giant Metal Hand; Great White Squark; Giant Electric Eel |
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Post by hallucination on Aug 20, 2023 14:04:10 GMT
Eye of the Dragon Dice allocated [and yup, same spread as in my Crystal of Storms attempt]. 1st go. Champskees’ guide (going for all keys except Bronze). Killed by the Gigantis; got two hits in before I died Skill 10, stamina 15, luck 9
Items/notes: provisions (7); gold pieces (84); piece of mirror; potion of healing; crystal dagger; lucky charm pendant; Iron Key 34; Magic Iron Breastplate; Silver Key 14; Gold Key 325; Staff of Thunder; Bronze Shield; Copper Key 192; hole in wall = azang bazang-zang; silver coins (3); fish hook; brass bell; 3 copper buttons; Silver Armband; rope; Ring of Zombie Control; picklock; silver cross; silver pin; white star = right: life, left: death; Skullsplitter Sword; Emerald Eye
Fights won: 3x Giant Rats; Giant Spider; Gremlin; 2x Skeletons; 3x Niblicks; 2x Uglukk Orc; 2x Thieves; Verminspawn
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Post by kalieum on Aug 20, 2023 19:48:01 GMT
Crystal of Storms 1 attempt Stats rolled in order No guide Killed by my second combat. Stats etc Skill 7/7
Stamina 1/17
Luck 8/12
Gold: 4
Sword
Cloudkin Staff
Apple Pie (heals 3)
Wins:
STORMKIN Writeup: To make up for not playing Forest of Doom last week despite having the book, I ordered a copy of Crystal of Storms online to have a book to do this week instead. It only arrived today, so I'm a little rushed to get this in for the deadline.
I'd never even heard of this one, and checking the date in the copyright blurb suggests it was released in 2020, making it by far the most recent entry I've played. The front cover looks quite whimsical, and while it's a lovely illustration, it doesn't quite fit with what I'd expect from a Fighting Fantasy book. Then again, I should probably remember it is technically a childrens' series.
There seems to be yet another series ordering - of which this is no. 17 - which just makes me sigh a little. That said, the rules look the same as ever, with the addition of codifying Testing your Stamina as a specific thing.
My rolls are on the whole pretty bad (though I've done better than the book's previous owner who presumably misread the rules and managed to start with only 5 luck), but perhaps modern sensibilities will have added things like 'fairness' to the FF formula. But that's enough procrastinating, there's only one way to find out.
The intro details that I'm a member of the watch on some magical sky islands. We'd all been called to some important meeting when, after being separated from the group by an errand an explosion flings me off of the island, with the adventure beginning as I fall. The blurb on the back of the book names said island as one that's crashed out of the sky and that my mission is to raise it out of the ocean it fell to, which ties the overall premise together. Perhaps the titular Crystal of Storms was the thing keeping the island airbone and it was damaged/destroyed in the explosion.
Strapping on my superior's techno-magical wings - that were the object of my errand - to arrest my fall I witness the island of Nimbus plummeting to the waters below, choosing one of three other islands to simultaenously be my home island and my current destination, which I guess is a way to make my character more part of the world, but deciding important things about my character mid-game has always felt weird to me.
Anyway, I decide my parents were moisture farmers and - oh hey, they're farming sentient clouds, like the one with a face on the cover art. It's so delightfully whimsical. Anyway, for the crime of being born on the wrong island, I lose 5 health, and after some more descriptive text find myself fighting a storm cloud. There's an NPC who helps me here, providing some frankly probably-necessary-to-my-survival bonuses for doing so.
Defeating the STORMKIN yields an 'if Altos is your home island' split, suggesting I'd be visiting all of the possible starting islands anyway and leaving me particularly miffed about taking 5 damage for starting here. But, because I started here, it turns out the NPC is my childhood friend Nemi, who gives me a couple of more localised quests (find her favourite cloud-herding sky-dog-thing, check the watch house for a sleeping watchman), and more importantly tags along for at least my time on Altos, providing the same benefits as she did in the fight. I'm pleasantly surprised at a companion who doesn't seem likely to die in a couple of sections and is actually a benefit to have around.
Wanting to keep my survival crutch happy, I head to the waterfall and start looking for Nemi's canidor, which I'm realising is what the main creature on the cover art is. It's been affected by the same burst of energy that turned a harmless cloud into a hostile one and seems to be struggling to stay in control and I don't have the necessary item to help it, so I'm forced to turn back to the goblin flier I saw previously. Nemi seems to vanish from the narrative at this point and I assume she remains with Flapps, but unless the book has separate sections for returning to previous islands I suspect I'm not going to be able to get the required item elsewhere and come back.
The goblin is too injured to fly me anywhere, but can charge the wings I - uh. If everyone else in the watch is dead then I am the ranking officer, I suppose. Anyway, it costs a gold to charge them, limiting how much I can go between the islands. I'm only allowed to choose the other two possible starting islands as my destination, leaving me wondering why I can't go to the two other presumably-still-airborne islands.
Pursuing the hope that I can help Nemi's sky dog I go to the trading island, where I seem to only have the choice of restoratives to buy with implied promise of rumours beyond. Taking the inefficiently-priced option I get a new pair of places I might want to check out (and realise I had no choice but to spend money, I think). Checking out a gambling stall I find that a) it is not Luck based and b) once I'm at the section where the rules are explained, I have no choice but to gamble. I elect to go all-in on the largest stake and lose it.
Recognising a pattern, I encounter this island's welcoming committee, a TUNNELER BEAST, which promptly eats me.
7 skill! Yeah!
I really didn't get to see much of this one but I liked what I did get to. Very lightly skimming ahead to see if I could go back to Altos though it looked like I get in a time loop where I'm zapped again, fight a storm cloud again, and so on. I may have missed a conditional that would prevent that, though. |
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Post by evilwizard on Aug 20, 2023 20:17:01 GMT
Fangs of Fury Skill 8
Stamina 17
Luck 7
Items: Bracelet, 30 Gold Coins, 10 Black Cubes, Potion of Fortune, XEN, 10 White Cubes, Triangle Block ‘15’, Key, Mushroom Block ‘50’, Circle Block ‘27’, Cube Block ‘22’, Cross Block ‘39’, Crescent Moon Block ‘75’, Wand
Kills: Goblin, First Orc, Second Orc, First Orc, Second Orc, First Goblin. Second Goblin, Third Goblin, Mage Warrior
1 attempt, guide used, no allocation, victory |
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Baron
Posts: 2,560
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Aug 21, 2023 22:27:02 GMT
The Warlock's Way Sk9 St20 Lu8 Ma19
Sacrificed by druids.
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Post by a moderator on Aug 26, 2023 23:02:19 GMT
A little under 24 hours to get in results for week 34.
Week 35
Crypt of the Sorceror (4 dice)
Rogue Mage (Warlock magazine 10 or 10th Anniversary Yearbook) (4 dice)
So, a book that’s almost guaranteed to kill even a 12-24-12 character, and a mini-adventure that should be no trouble for anyone with an above-average Skill score. Just to make the choice a little bit more interesting, let’s have another one-off bonus…
Randomness Bonus
Bonus points will be awarded based on the number of different situations you encounter which require you to roll a single die to determine what happens to you (note that different rounds of the same combat do not count as different situations – you only get to claim one roll for that fight). Make sure to list all the times you have to make such a roll.
If playing Rogue Mage:
1) You may only eat Provisions when specifically permitted to do so by the text.
2) To make the fight against the Clone Slime mildly challenging, the second time you fight a pair of Slime Figures, roll one die, divide the number rolled by 2 (rounding up), and increase their Skill score by the total. If you fight a third pair of Slime Figures, determine their Skill by adding the result of a similar roll to the Skill of the second pair.
Please state if you use a guide, if you allocate dice at character creation rather than taking them as they fall, or if you make more than one attempt at a book.
Only combats which you win should be included in the list of enemies defeated.
Week 33 scoring
1st: evilwizard – 20 (stats bonus 5 + victory bonus 10 + most fights won bonus 5)
2nd: terrysalt – 14 (stats bonus 4+ victory bonus 10)
3rd: hallucination - 7 (stats bonus 2 + most fights won bonus 5)
4th: kalieum - 4 (stats bonus 4)
Running totals
1st: evilwizard - 477
2nd: terrysalt - 459
3rd: hallucination - 419
4th: King Gillibran - 287
5th: kieran - 132
6th: peasantscribbler - 76
7th: kalieum - 54
8th: juniorhornet - 44
9th: nathanh – 33
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Post by terrysalt on Aug 26, 2023 23:47:56 GMT
This will be quick!
Crypt of the Sorcerer
Skill: 10
Stamina: 20
Luck: 10
Guide: Yes
Assigned Stats: No - I actually rolled four 4s so I couldn't if I wanted to!
Attempts: 1
Items: 5 healing potion
Fights: NA
Info: This book sucks
Rolls: Harpoon flies (6)
That went badly.
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Post by evilwizard on Aug 27, 2023 14:42:52 GMT
Eye of the Dragon
Skill 12
Stamina 19
Luck 11
Items: Sword, Backpack, 81 Gold Pieces, 10 Provisions, Emerald Eye, Piece of Mirror, Healing Potion, Crystal Dagger, Garlic Cloves, Bronze Key (85), Crystal Pendant, Iron Key (34), Magical Iron Breastplate, Silver Key (14), Gold Key (325), Staff of Thunder, Bronze Shield, Copper Key (192), Hole in the Wall Spell, 3 Silver Coins, Brass Bell, Silver Armband, Rope, Ring of Zombie Control, Picklock, Skullsplitter Sword, Emerald Eye, Elven Boots, Golden Dragon
Kills: First Giant Rat, Second Giant Rat, Third Giant Rat, First Vampire Bat, Second Vampire Bat, Snake Witch, Giant Spider, Gremlin, First Skeleton, Second Skeleton, First Niblick, Second Niblick, Third Niblick, Uglukk Orc, Uglukk Orc, First Thief, Second Thief, Verminspawn, Gigantis, Doppelganger, Sharcle
Not counted: Rats, Flesh Grubs
1 attempt, no allocation, guide used, victory
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Post by evilwizard on Aug 27, 2023 15:13:18 GMT
Crypt of the Sorcerer
Skill 10
Stamina 24
Luck 7
Items: Chainmail, Gold Nugget, Knife, Holy Water, Crystal of Sanity, Chameleonite Blood, Skull Ring, Moon Ring, Cracked Silver Mirror, 2 Gold Pieces,
Kills: First Rad Hulk, Second Rad Hulk, First Chameleonite, Second Chameleonite, Third Chameleonite, Bonekeeper, First Goblin, Second Goblin, Third Goblin, Fourth Goblin
Rolls: Harpoon Flies (2), Chameleonite Blood (2)
1 attempt, guide, no allocation, defeat - killed by the Wood Demon
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Post by kalieum on Aug 27, 2023 23:55:16 GMT
What are the rules on multiple attempts?
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Post by a moderator on Aug 28, 2023 0:42:42 GMT
You can try up to three times, but your points total for the week will be reduced by 2 (to a minimum of 0) for each successive attempt. If your last try would score worse than a previous one, you are free to submit the best-scoring attempt, but please state how many times you tried regardless.
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Post by hallucination on Aug 30, 2023 17:42:50 GMT
Crypt of the Sorcerer Dice allocated. 1st attempt. Champskees’ guide. Skill 10, stamina 17, luck 10 Items/notes: healing potions (0 remaining), chainmail armour, gold nugget, knife, Holy Water, translucent crystal of sanity, skull ring, ‘granite door 184’, 2 gp, silver-framed mirror, silver rod 37, 4 gp, candle, Gargantis info scroll
Fights won: Rad-Hulk x2; Chameleonite x3; Bonekeeper; Goblin x4; Wood Demon; Werewolf
Killed by the Griffin (had it down to 2 stamina)
Die rolls: Harpoon flies @249 (4).
Does testing your skill and luck count? If yes, a luck roll during Rad-Hulk battle (pass); skill check @137 (pass); skill check @365 (pass); a luck roll during Griffin battle (pass). |
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Post by kalieum on Aug 30, 2023 17:55:46 GMT
So I don't own a copy of Crypt, but given its reputation there was something I wanted to do when it came up. (Based on champskees's guide, stats rolled randomly.)  Rather more than the 3 attempts maximum, but significantly fewer than I expected. (cycles = attempts). (For the sake of individual attempts for scoring - if this is even eligible - I generated 3 in mode 0 first, which in order were died to second rad hulk with 10/22/8 rolls, died to harpoon flies with 8/22/11 rolls and died to second rad hulk with 9/20/9 rolls.) Some stats for fun: generating a million attempts with max stats gave 5080 wins, or 0.508% winrate. A million attempts with properly random stats only won 387 times, or 0.0387% winrate. Generating several more wins, the next 10 wins rolled 12/15/9, 12/18/9, 12/15/11, 12/21/12, 12/19/8, 12/17/10, 12/17/11, 12/15/9, 12/24/12 and 12/17/12. Not a single win without max skill, but it seems stamina isn't actually that important. I did allow the character to drink the healing potion mid-combat though, not sure if that's actually permitted or not. Edit - After fixing some errors empirical testing suggests winrates of 0.0486% and 0.6% for fully random/max stats respectively |
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 30, 2023 18:47:58 GMT
kalieum That's amazing, thank you! 0.0387% with randomly rolled stats. Kind of reminds me of my fascination with beating Trial Of Champions with Skill 10 Stamina 24 Luck 12, after rolling exactly that Avatar - but Champskees table has odds under .1%\stastically insignificant. Especially the latter is a well-designed book in many respects but spoiled by a ridiculous difficulty.
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