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[Kon-Tiki]

Oy, a vegetarian killing worms... isn't that a tad bit hypocritic from that vegetarian?

[A. J. Raffles]

Kon-Tiki, on Nov 17 2005, 05:17 PM, said:

Oy, a vegetarian killing worms... isn't that a tad bit hypocritic from that vegetarian?

I said vegetarian, not pacifist...

[Kon-Tiki]

Vegetarian = person that doesn't eat meat due to not wanting animals to die.
Pacifist = person that always gets picked on cause he doesn't want to fight, which makes him/her/it an easy target.

Anyways, didn't know vegetarian was a class in there

[PrejudiceSucks]

Vegetarian = Starves animals to death indirectly! That's way worse than stunning the buggers and killing them!

Pacifist = Somebody who doesn't want to fight. Which is fair enough.

[A. J. Raffles]

Kon-Tiki, on Nov 17 2005, 05:22 PM, said:

Vegetarian = person that doesn't eat meat due to not wanting animals to die.
Pacifist = person that always gets picked on cause he doesn't want to fight, which makes him/her/it an easy target.

Anyways, didn't know vegetarian was a class in there

According to the OED, a vegetarian is "One who lives wholly or principally upon vegetable foods; a person who on principle abstains from any form of animal food, or at least such as is obtained by the direct destruction of life." That doesn't say anything about refraining from killing things, actually. Besides, there's quite a few vegetarians who don't subscribe to this whole ethical... thingy and are basically just vegetarians for health reasons or because they simply don't like meat.

And vegetarian isn't a class, it's a sort of challenge game, basically.

[Kon-Tiki]

The direct destruction of life does sound like killing

[A. J. Raffles]

Kon-Tiki, on Nov 17 2005, 05:32 PM, said:

The direct destruction of life does sound like killing

You didn't read the definition properly, Tiki: a vegetarian is somebody who abstains from food obtained by the direct destruction of life. So, just going by the letter of the definition, it would be perfectly all right for a vegetarian to go around killing large doggies, he just won't eat their corpses.

[Kon-Tiki]

For some reason, that's worse (in my eyes) than killing animals for food. Anyways, we're getting a bit off-topic. What I've been wondering 'bout... what exactly's setting ADoM so above other Roguelikes? Comparing this thread to the other Roguelike-threads, this one jumps out for miles.

[Havell]

It's because this is the best roguelike ever.  For many reasons that have been mentioned in this thread.

[Eagle of Fire]

I can only agree.  

[A. J. Raffles]

Veggie2 is going fine at the moment and just waiting to be crowned. I did manage to grow some stomafillia herbs in a room with an altar, though, so I managed an amazing four precrownings. And nice artifacts, too. I bet the character is going to die in the Tower of Eternal Flames...

[A. J. Raffles]

Finally got crowned. With fire immunity, so I might stand a chance in the ToEF after all...

[A. J. Raffles]

Survived the ToEF fine, but the cat lord's going to be a bit tricky: I've killed about twenty cats so far... What's worse, I can't see invisible (I couldn't get to the pyramid on time to get the mummy wrapping), so I fear it's going to be "Something critically hits you. Something critically hits you! Something critically hits you! Something critically hits you! You die..."

[A. J. Raffles]

Dead. Surprisingly enough it wasn't the cat lord but a greater moloch (generated in a tension room on the level below) that was just far tougher than it should have been. My missile weapon skills were decent, but not enough, apparently. When I ran out of ammunition and tried to sneak past him to pick up my arrows and quarrels of demon slaying, he hit me. Twice. The End. Oh well, that's ADOM for you.

[Juni Ori]

Just begun with interesting Dark Elf Assasin. Got three talents and too all the way to Greased Lightning and now my speed is 112 at first level! Don't know how clever that was, but we'll see. Only drawback was that now I can't use two weapons. Yet.

Edit: Dead... Darn Wizard summoned huge number of Tarantulas around me! But overall nice character. Perhaps I try another one.