Death Match Questions

[velk]

Eyes of Aiming, Berserker Pelts, Knives of the Damned, Amulets of Lycanthropy, Armour of Thorns - only your imagination sets the limit - so long as you choose something cursed or immediately disabilitating (Fever Fetish).

This is why winning with a pretender gives them a horrible achilles heel against human opponents, mostly because once they win they can never refuse to participate and the longer the game goes on, the more nasty suprises they could get. I would imagine a gift of kurgi could be somewhat painful for example 8)

Still I don't think you loot anything if your slots are already full, so you could probably avoid most of that irritation by loading your SC up with cheap items.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
In a deathmatch with n contenders, at least n-1 contenders will die. (It is possible that all n contenders die). Remember this, always.

Not always true. Counter-example below.

I promised a special case before, and this is it. You can enter in order to lose, and still gain. This is done by booby-trapping your contestant such that he will hurt the opposing contenders.

It should be immediately obvious that a booby trap based on inflicting massive damage on a single contender is useless. If you are not going to win, then there is only going to be one enemy survivor anyhow, so your killing off one is completely and utterly irrelevant.

In other words, what you are interested in is cursed items that the enemy will pick up.

There are other ways to booby-trap an arena deathmatch and keep your champion. The most effective I've seen is using an astral/nature mage with an item like a Lantern Shield or BOLW, and scripted (Curse)(Horror Mark)(Soul Slay)(Soul Slay)(Returning). With Ritual of Returning on top of it as an extra insurance. There are other variants, but this one is nasty.

[ March 30, 2004, 07:24: Message edited by: Nagot Gick Fel ]

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:
There are other ways to booby-trap an arena deathmatch and keep your champion. The most effective I've seen is using an astral/nature mage with an item like a Lantern Shield or BOLW, and scripted (Curse)(Horror Mark)(Soul Slay)(Soul Slay)(Returning). With Ritual of Returning on top of it as an extra insurance. There are other variants, but this one is nasty.

Okay, that one is nasty. I had no idea that ritual of returning worked in Deathmatches

[Argitoth]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
Okay, that one is nasty. I had no idea that ritual of returning worked in Deathmatches

Why wouldn't it? You gotta think outside the box when you play Dominions.

[ March 30, 2004, 15:24: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[Taqwus]

Summoning lammashastas and returning would also be a bit mean. Hm. If the lammashastas kill the other guy, who proceeds onto the next round?

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Summoning lammashastas and returning would also be a bit mean.

It's much more risky, requires gems, and will work only for one round. OTOH the routine I've posted costs no gems, and your champion can repeat it for the whole tournament as long s/he succesfully Soul Slays his/her competitor. In one occasion (in Doms 1) I've had my Wyrm killed by a friend who used a nature Squidface mage. My Wyrm was cursed, horror marked and Soul Slayed in 2 rounds (Squids could equip boots then). This one had the Ritual of Returning mark, Boots of Quickness, a Lantern Shield, a Spell Focus and a Bottle of Living Water, and some other stuff I can't remember. He eventually won the tournament.

Hm. If the lammashastas kill the other guy, who proceeds onto the next round?

Nobody OFC. The tournament doesn't require a winner if noone survives.

[Argitoth]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Summoning lammashastas and returning would also be a bit mean. Hm. If the lammashastas kill the other guy, who proceeds onto the next round?

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