>>693300
Changing equip takes an entire turn. We'd have to leave to do that, and they might cluster by the door, which would make Greater Bonfire useless.

On the other hand, we could exit the room and reenter it, hoping they DO cluster by the door, so that we can cast bonfire and run away, without getting hit?

SCRY on the blue slime!

get into the door so only one can get near you at a time.

rolled 5 + 1 = 6

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Shock the blue slime, retreat 3 spaces (though the door).

Next turn, retreat further, and prepare to shock again.

When the blue is dead we can bash the green to death. I don't want to risk meleeing the blue, it probably hits harder.

Lets Scry

Use Bonfire. Hopefully we can scry the blue one next turn.

rolled 3 + 1 = 4

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>>693438

Let me roll for you

Gnuk 2016/01/13(Wed)03:36 No. 693443 ID: 6f30b4
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>Go right up in their faces and cast Bonfire.

>Move 1 down, bonfire

>Use Bonfire. Hopefully we can scry the blue one next turn.

Results 3, 2, 4 - average 3

You sprint forward!

Nothing ventured, nothing gained!

Both Slimes are hit for 3 HP, plus they will start to lose one HP every round for 3 rounds.

Gnuk 2016/01/13(Wed)03:37 No. 693444 ID: 6f30b4
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rolled 6, 3 = 9

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And now, it's the slimes turn to attack!

First, the green slime.

Roll for defense!

rolled 6, 6 = 12

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Ting (hopefully the noise it bouncing off a tiniest wizard makes)

Gnuk 2016/01/13(Wed)03:49 No. 693447 ID: 6f30b4
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rolled 6, 2, 6 = 14

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A perfect block!

Green slime loses 1 hp due to bonfire effects.

It's time for the Blue slime to attack!

Roll for defense!

rolled 6, 4 = 10

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This is going to be awful

Dang, nice rolls. I suggest we scan, flee the room and let bonfire do its job.

Scan costs 5 mp and is probably not worth the mana. I'd prefer to have the mp for two more casts of shock.

Let's just run.

>>693451
Scan is always worth it! Especially if it reveals blue slimes can heal other monsters and/or itself! Or it could reveal blue slimes are immune to and/or absorb shock into its attack and/or health! Or it could tell us if blue slimes inflict the dreaded poison status! Scanning is always worth it!

But I agree that we need to run away. Scanning is best done at a distance and not when the enemy is right next to you!

Gnuk 2016/01/13(Wed)12:31 No. 693506 ID: 6f30b4
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Tiniest wizard loses 4 HP!

Blue slime suffer 1 point from the fire

>Dang, nice rolls. I suggest we scan, flee the room and let bonfire do its job.

>Scan is always worth it! Especially if it reveals blue slimes can heal other monsters and/or itself! Or it could reveal blue slimes are immune to and/or absorb shock into its attack and/or health! Or it could tell us if blue slimes inflict the dreaded poison status! Scanning is always worth it!
But I agree that we need to run away. Scanning is best done at a distance and not when the enemy is right next to you!

You cast [SCRY] on the blue slime

"A rare type of slime. Beware facing them without a good armor, or you might end up becoming a bloody pulp! Do not try to use ice spells on it too, or its defense will rise drastically!"

Gnuk 2016/01/13(Wed)12:34 No. 693507 ID: 6f30b4
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>Let's just run.

You run back in the previou room.

You hear the fire sizzling in the other room, but you don't know where the monsters are!

keep backing up, the next room is larger.

let's heal!

>>693507
Go back another room, then get some distance away from the door so the slime can't ambush you. Switch to the mp/hp swap ring so you don't waste any of that healing potion. Regain 1 mp, drink potion. We'll have 10 hp and 3 mp, enough to cast one Shock.

>>693522
Yup, this.

>>693522
Yeah, sounds good.

Go to the next room and make sure nobody's there.

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)04:21 No. 693751 ID: 01c11d
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>keep backing up, the next room is larger.

>Go back another room, then get some distance away from the door so the slime can't ambush you.

You move back into the previous room.

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)04:22 No. 693752 ID: 01c11d
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> Switch to the mp/hp swap ring so you don't waste any of that healing potion. Regain 1 mp

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)04:23 No. 693754 ID: 01c11d
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>drink potion. We'll have 10 hp and 3 mp, enough to cast one Shock.

Tiniest Wizard gains 5 gold!

the green slime must have died thanks to Bonfire's effect.

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)04:23 No. 693755 ID: 01c11d
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Now, time to wait for the slime to take its turn. You wonder where it could be.

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)04:24 No. 693756 ID: 01c11d
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Oh! there it is!

It's your turn again!

rolled 5 = 5

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ZAP!

>>693763
That should kill it.

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)08:06 No. 693800 ID: 01c11d
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>ZAP!

You hit the slime for 5 points of damage!

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)08:07 No. 693801 ID: 01c11d
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Tiniest Wizard gains 40 gold!

Now where to?

>>693801
You're out of potions and your HP+MP is only 10, retreat and come back later.

Buy a mana potion, drink it. Then continue down and right through the unopened door.

Equip the ring of Rage.

...you know, I don't think killing those last three slimes was worth it at all.

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)10:13 No. 693819 ID: 01c11d
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>You're out of potions and your HP+MP is only 10, retreat and come back later.

>Equip the ring of Rage.

>Buy a mana potion

You equip the Ring of Rage.

You move back and buy another Mana Potion from the shop

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)10:14 No. 693820 ID: 01c11d
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>drink it.

Tiniest Wizard gains 5 MP!

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)10:17 No. 693821 ID: 01c11d
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>Then continue down and right through the unopened door.

You go in the latest closed door.

It's locked!

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)10:18 No. 693822 ID: 01c11d
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Luckily, you have a Key!

The Key opens the door, and then snaps in half.

Seriously, who makes these things...

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)10:18 No. 693823 ID: 01c11d
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You enter inside the room.

There are three chests inside, and...

... a note on the ground?

hug note read chest...

i mean read the note. be wary of explosive runes.

Trap check the note, then read it.

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)11:55 No. 693849 ID: 01c11d
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>Trap check the note

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY!

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)11:58 No. 693850 ID: 01c11d
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>i mean read the note. be wary of explosive runes.

>then read it.

We are sorry to inform that the files for the tutorial boss have been misplaced due to a mistake of a (former) employee and therefore are not present in the current build. As a way to compensate, we hope you'll appreciate the presence of this treasure room Keep on adventuring, dear costumer!

Wait does that mean...

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)11:59 No. 693852 ID: 01c11d
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AAAAH!

Tiniest Wizard gains 300 gold!

Gnuk 2016/01/14(Thu)12:01 No. 693854 ID: 01c11d
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THANKS FOR YOUR PARTECIPATION AT THIS BETA TESTING! WE AT GNUKSHORTQUEST(tm) HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD TIME, EVERY INPUT AND SUGGESTION YOU MIGHT HAVE TO MAKE THIS PRODUCT BETTER WILL BE CONSIDERED AND WORKED ON!

>>693854
PHEW. That was a really close victory. Those two slimes could've easily killed us.

The main problem was that we spent 15 mp on scans. That effectively means we took 15 extra damage, because due to that ring, hp=mp, and hp and mp were recovered at the same cost via the shop too. Scan really needs to be cheaper! 2 MP seems about right. Keep in mind it has a hidden cost of not being able to attack that turn.

A second problem is that none of our spells were better than the melee attack against anything with 1d6 defense, and slimes only had like a 50% chance of doing any damage at all. Shock's only advantage is that it pierces defense, so it was good against the skeleton and nothing else. Bonfire is kindof a bad spell in general, as without the upgrade scroll we basically have to take a hit to use it, and it does not do enough damage to make up for that, even taking into account the AoE. Heck, because it's an AoE, it encourages walking right into a group of monsters, which is really dumb to do as the wizard. The upgrade scroll's version should have been the default form.

Lastly, being able to attack and then run out of the room has the potential for abuse. The Rogue has a free ranged attack, so you could do that repeatedly to clear a room with zero risk. We always got the first turn when entering a room, so...

I think having a choice of a couple of spells to start off with would have been good. (manashield or phase for a turn or 2 of extra defense, magic missile for 2d4)As is, there is a spell that started out useless (bonfire), a spell that does no damage (scan) a middling damage spell and we had no defensive options other than to just take the hit.

Id suggest having a couple abilities or spells that we pick a few of to start (doesnt have to be many) and/or maybe one item to start off with to choose from. It makes it seem more like *our* character instead of *a* character.

we didint kill the guy? wow! Nice job, team.

For more tactical depth, how about a 'defensive stance' option that does no damage but makes you less likely to be hit, and reduces the cost of scanning enemies the longer you've observed them?