Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[jonadab@bright.net (Jonadab the Unsightly One)]

"Daniel Giaimo" <dgiaimo@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> > Yeah.  First time I played Adventure, I couldn't figure out how
> > to "kill the dwarf with the axe".  I mean, throwing an axe is
> > not, last I checked, a normal way to use that weapon.
> 
>     I guess the dwarvish axe is more like a tomahawk than a battleaxe.

I suppose, but when I think "dwarvish" I think Tolkeinien-dwarvish,
and I think massive double-edged battleaxe at least half the size of
the guy wielding it, probably made millenia ago two miles beneath the
surface of the ground, forged out of some incredibly dense alloy 
or another, the kind of thing that cuts right through standard-issue
iron chain mail, rendering it asunder, like a chainsaw through balsa
wood.  If you throw it, your enemy can potentially pick it up and
use it against you (unless of course you're a good enough shot to
render him assunder with one fell blow).  But if you hit him with
it, he's not going to give you any more trouble.

> Also,  I would think that you would get the idea since the dwarf throws the
> axe at you.

And I think of a very sturdy dwarf who is capable of throwing
something as tall as he is and half his girth and twice his weight,
something a puny weakling man like me would never be able to throw to
any effect.


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