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[recluser]

I wonder why do people have so many problems with them.

Perhaps this can explain part of the issue:

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Sorry I just couldn't help myself.. 

[TomiTapio]

Werewolves are not building destroyers, and they can't lockpick, so you can just lock the doors. I wonder why do people have so many problems with them.

I never use doors or two-floodgate airlocks; just traps. Really can't bother with siege engines either.

Recently I've been trying some roguelikes (had Moria/Nethack/ADoM in years past, even Moria on 7 MHz 1 MB Amiga).
I've installed Angband(Moria, much larger levels than 80x25), ToME (comes with tileset and sound effects, can edit .lua raws), Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Now back to see how ADoM has changed. (Huh, its latest version is from 2002 and there's a windows wrapper "ADoM Sage" for it now.) Still a decent system, attributes and skill potentials go up from using and at level-up. Special rooms are nice. There is weapon-crafting and arrow-making. Booby-trapped locked doors explode upon kicking, destroying your items... dip the "enchant weapon" scrolls into "holy water" to bless them... and starving to death is a real possibility, especially when playing a troll.

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Jn, the drakish fighter, was scorched by a fire drake.
She scored 2290 points and advanced to level 5.
She survived for 0 years, 2 days, 5 hours, 11 minutes and 15 seconds (3511
turns).
Jn visited 2 places.
Her strength score was modified by +1 during her career.
She ended her adventuring life on level 7 of some ancient caves.
59 monsters perished under her attacks.
She had the following talents: Shield Specialist, Strong.
She had a final speed score of 101 (final base speed: 100).
She was religious.
She did not ask for divine help.
She was neutrally aligned.

The following monsters were vanquished:
      1 bandit
      1 berserker
      2 big dogs
      1 brown worm
      2 claw bugs
      1 cutpurse
      1 doppleganger
      1 fire beetle
      1 gelatinous cube
      1 giant rat
      1 gnoll
      1 goblin rockthrower
      2 goblin slavemasters
      2 hobgoblins
      1 hobgoblin leader
     10 jackals
      1 jackalwere
      4 kobolds
      1 kobold shaman
      1 large jackal
      2 large kobolds
      1 large orc
      5 lizard men
      2 orcs
      1 orc scorcher
      1 raider
      3 rats
      1 ratling warrior
      1 skeleton
      2 swordsmen
      1 viper
      1 wererat
      1 wolf
      1 yellow ooze

[Lord Shonus]

Beware the almighty jackal.

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The most recent versions of Adom make creatures tougher the more of them you kill to discourage grinding. Summoners make this a pain because they can spam large mobs at you repeatedly. The most common summoner is the jackalwere, which can hit you with three dozen jackals if you are not careful. It's not uncommon for jackals to be among the most powerful creatures in the game later on.

[Jacob/Lee]

Werewolves are not building destroyers, and they can't lockpick, so you can just lock the doors. I wonder why do people have so many problems with them.

I find poltergeist-like instant door locking that keeps out a majority of creatures that come knocking a cheap way to survive. I never use doors to keep out hostiles, it's always a bridge.

[Tyler6498]

Is spellwood a powerful type of tree? I'm seeing this amazingly detailed spellwood spear for trade wand wonder if it's really worth it.

[Flaede]

Is spellwood a powerful type of tree? I'm seeing this amazingly detailed spellwood spear for trade wand wonder if it's really worth it.

Spellwood is technically a metal, game RAW wise. It is the elves' answer to metal. As I understand it, it's in the game so that they can actually have a weapon that does damage through metal armor.

EDIT: More detailed comparisons are on the mod's wiki, here: http://df-genesis.wikidot.com/metals
EDIT ^2 - and as noted below, the chart says that spellwood is kinda crap for weapons/armor. Melt it down and turn it into cages, sez I.

[dennislp3]

Which based on that chart...is crap...spellwood is precious and I would recommend it for decoration if not using Sun Gold (or use both)

[TomiTapio]

Also, Ironwood is metal-strong wood material straight off the tree, so it makes good shields and bolts. The silly elves enchant it to be more malleable and it becomes Spellwood.

[Flaede]

Yeah, chart sez spellwood is kinda crap. Does it even actually get through decent armor?
I say melt it and reforge it. Mint coins with it or something.

Ack! I just got sieged by centaurs. They brought 9 wolves with them.

That wasn't the problem. The problem is that all 9 were female! What gives? Has something sneaky been done to wolves in this mod? I wanted wolves of my very own to add to the zoo.

[Elu]

humm, hope this isn't the wrong place but i have two question:

firstly, i LOVE when things burn, except when that thing is my wagon right off the embark, i've looked on something that can have started the fire, and have found that there are "fireball pick" and "fireball axe"... what? is that normal or i have screwed something?

secondly, this probably is the millionth time this question's asked, how i can change the embarking race in fortress mode? i've read about the token, but in the entity_default file there's nothing like sasquatchs, that is the only civ i've managed to embark with...

[Flaede]

humm, hope this isn't the wrong place but i have two question:

firstly, i LOVE when things burn, except when that thing is my wagon right off the embark, i've looked on something that can have started the fire, and have found that there are "fireball pick" and "fireball axe"... what? is that normal or i have screwed something?

secondly, this probably is the millionth time this question's asked, how i can change the embarking race in fortress mode? i've read about the token, but in the entity_default file there's nothing like sasquatchs, that is the only civ i've managed to embark with...

Sounds like you doubled up an entry or two. You get random weirdness like fire axes and dragonfly civilizations when you do that.

[Elu]

Sounds like you doubled up an entry or two. You get random weirdness like fire axes and dragonfly civilizations when you do that.

aww, yes, i'm an idiot, the error log show a ton of duplication problem, after a fresh install everything went better...

but in fact i kinda liked the idea of a fireball axe...

[Rumrusher]

Sounds like you doubled up an entry or two. You get random weirdness like fire axes and dragonfly civilizations when you do that.

aww, yes, i'm an idiot, the error log show a ton of duplication problem, after a fresh install everything went better...

but in fact i kinda liked the idea of a fireball axe...

screw axe the fireball pick sounds like layers of pain to dig in.

[ggamer]

Yeah, I disabled their web for now, it cause too much trouble for your own dwarves. Obsidian dwarves shoot fireballs at will, so careful with booze/forest fires. Aspid dwarves no longer have a paralyzing breath, but they have a poisonous bite.

well, are obsidian dorfs still lightsources?

[Stuebi]

Hey guys. Is this mod playable for newcomers in Fortress Mode? Im playing since 2 weeks now and wonder if this mod makes the Game a lot harder or not with the new seemingly agressive races like Werewolves.