Re: poison? luggage?

[swra01@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Stephen David Wray)]

>  The reliability of pet monsters (or similar monsters) following the 
> player when he changes map is suspect at best.
[snip]
>  But if you lose your luggage with your items in it, this is a major
> problem.  Also, if it follows you around, it means you could never apply
> it - something needs to be in the same space or in your inventory
> to apply something.

Oh... yes, I had forgotten about that :)

I note that it has a non-positive effect on the game that monsters don't
pursue players across map boundaries.

It could get very interesting to have persistent beasties hunting down the
players through complex maps...




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