🚀 go-pugleaf

On 14 Feb 1997 17:57:48 +0100, rrk...@tychen.franken.de (Rainer
Klier) wrote:

>
>1) I (Lvl 32 Warrior) have Chain Lightning on level 8 (or was it 7 ?)
>   and the spellbook says: Damage 4-66 or so.
>   I went down on Multiplayergame (Nightmare) and killed > 30 mudmen,
>   so the game tells me, that the mudmen there have 400-475 Hitpoints.
>   I was surrounded the by 5-6 mudmen later on the same level and the
>   first thing I did was to cast a chain lightning (Damage 4-66, see
>   above). 3 of the 5 mudmen where dead after this chain lightning. 
>   How does this come ? I thought they have >400 hitpoints...

Lightning does multiple damage, if you fire a single bolt at
something, it gets hit for each "square" of lightning that goes over
it. If you watch and listen, you will find this as the monsters make
ouching sounds more than once.

>
>2) With my weapon my charactersheet says I have 46-68 Damage. I wanted
>   to figure out how much it actually was and found a victim (my girl-
>   friend playing in Multiplayer with me). I hit on her once and her
>   hitpoints fell from 159 to 41. I don't understand why I substracted
>   her far more than 100 hitpoint, while I should make 46-68 damage.
>
>Any clues on these ? :)