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Re: detect curse



> Since I like my horses good and dead, let me relate a story.  A friend of 
> mine recently started playing crossfire.  He quickly learned that the 
> only way to find out if an item was worth anything or not was to wear 
> it.  He also quickly learned that some items are cursed.  He has worn 
> cursed items three or four times now, spending a great deal of effort to 
> gain enough gold to buy a remove curse scroll each time, and has now 
> learned that wearing items just doesn't pay.  What does he do now?  He 
> sells everything.  Period.  No checking, no detection, just sell it.  A 
> low level detect curse would clear up his problem.  He would have a 
> reason to save up and buy the spell, and he wouldn't spend all his time 
> adventuring in a cursed state.  
> 
>  --Bill

 The strategy I found you need to follow when starting out is the following.
First sell any weapons or armour you find until you have enough money to 
buy a detect magic scroll. Now dump any stuff you find in a pile and use 
detect magic to weed out the non-magical stuff. Sell the non-magical stuff.
Repeat until you can afford some identify scrolls. Now identify stuff and sell
the stuff you don't need. Use the money to buy detect magic and identify scrolls
and when you can afford it, a spellbook of detect magic. 

 You really have to do this as you can't afford to just try things because of
the risk of cursed items. Also, identified items are worth so much more than 
unidentified stuff, so you usually make money by buying a scroll of identify
and identifying things rather than just selling the stuff unidentified.


Rupert
Oh, and if you really want detect curse to be another level, just change
spell_params. That's what it's there for.