On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Kevin L. Crawford wrote:
>
> Everyone that I have ever seen purport that Clouding works
> vs. undead seems to have 1 major misconception:
>
> All the undead in unrest except Barbed bones (and higher)
> are under level 20, which means they have green coward
> code affecting them. You could, at level 30, walk around
> in unrest pretty much unperturbed by ANY of the undead
> simply because they won't attack you because you're so far
> above them in level.
>
> Just because an undead critter doesn't attack doesn't mean
> you're invisible to them. Try using clouding then CONNING
> the undead. They still con as 'ready to attack'. Which
No, they /con indifferernt. That's how I've always tested
whether it worked or not.
Except for ghouls and a couple other undead I don't recall at
the moment, coward code doesn't apply to undead. All those
silly L5-10 skeletons and mummies still attack me at 49.
That's actually one of the reasons necro pets were regarded as
better than mage pets early on - they wouldn't refuse to
attack something.
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John H. Kim
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