Hi, folks; first post. Found this game a couple of weeks ago when I was looking for a download link for an old nostalgia-drenched favorite of mine: Zangband. (Turns out, TOME is a lot more fun than Zangband!) Anyway, after a bunch of experimentation and stupid deaths, I've decided I really dig the Geomancer class.
I just keep blundering into my own lava on the floor-- that's really my main problem right now. I've just hit level 20, and have been trying to leave the spellbooks stowed away in my home as much as possible, to try to get a feel for the geomancy powers. I bought a cheap Ring of Levitation to prevent drowning in my own water tiles, which seems to be working fine. I also bought a cheap Ring of Fire Resistance, but I'm still taking damage from lava, and more frustratingly, losing important scrolls and spellbooks when they burn up. I think the Fire Resistance reduces the chance that something gets burned up, but I'd like to eliminate it entirely. I've been using the "look" command a lot, but that slows me down to a crawl, and I often blunder into lava when some colorful cloud effect is making it hard to see.
So, I guess I have three real questions:
1.) Other than Fire Immunity, is there a good way to save my valuables from getting ruined by my own lava tiles? Is there a decent way to reliably find Fire Immunity, or am I going to have to hope for a lucky artifact? The HP loss seems pretty minor; it's losing scrolls and spellbooks that's really frustrating.
2.) Why doesn't blindness-resistance protect me from my own Channel Elements (Sand)'s self-blind effect? Even my now-deceased dwarf geomancer (with his innate blindness resistance) got blinded by the sand. Is there some other way around this? Is it a bug, or intentional?
3.) Are there any other pitfalls with Geomancy that I need to watch out for, in terms of hazardous terrain? There seems to be more different types of terrain as my skill goes up; should I start preparing for some other menace?
Thanks in advance, folks.
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