Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

["Daniel Giaimo" <dgiaimo@ix.netcom.com>]

Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab@bright.net> wrote in message
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> dylanw@demon.net (Dylan O'Donnell) wrote:
>
> > Yes, actually. Not convoluted sentences like the one above, usually,
> > but three or four word commands like HIT TROLL WITH SWORD or PUT JEWEL
> > ON PEDESTAL; I'm _used_ to being able to say things like that with the
> > expectation that, even if they don't work, the game will understand
> > what I'm trying to do. It's jarring (even if perfectly reasonable, as
> > in the case of games from this era) when it doesn't.
>
> 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.
Also,  I would think that you would get the idea since the dwarf throws the
axe at you.

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