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  • Dipping heavy items in holy water as a giant?

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 23 18:44:34 2021
    Has anyone tried whether it is possible to dip heavy items in
    holy water while being self-polymorphed in giant form?
    My problem is a bag of holding from a bones heap with a weight
    of nearly 5000 units and no wand of cancellation available yet.

    Janis

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Sat Aug 28 17:53:38 2021
    On 23.08.2021 18:44, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    Has anyone tried whether it is possible to dip heavy items in
    holy water while being self-polymorphed in giant form?
    My problem is a bag of holding from a bones heap with a weight
    of nearly 5000 units and no wand of cancellation available yet.

    I had tested it in that (Slashem) game; became a storm giant and
    tried to lift that bag. But it was *not* possible to pick it up.

    Janis

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to Janis on Sat Aug 28 15:48:05 2021
    On Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 8:53:40 AM UTC-7, Janis wrote:
    I had tested it in that (Slashem) game; became a storm giant and
    tried to lift that bag. But it was *not* possible to pick it up.

    Boulders are weightless for giants, including for hero poly'd into
    giant form. Other than that, they have the same encumbrance
    limits as anyone else.

    I think monster nymphs have unlimited carrying capacity; I'm not
    sure about gelatinous cubes. Hero poly'd into nymph form has
    maximum carrying capacity regardless of strength and constitution
    but not unlimited capacity. Being poly'd into g.cube form doesn't
    convey any special carrying capability.

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Pat Rankin on Sun Aug 29 03:40:35 2021
    On 29.08.2021 00:48, Pat Rankin wrote:
    On Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 8:53:40 AM UTC-7, Janis wrote:
    I had tested it in that (Slashem) game; became a storm giant and
    tried to lift that bag. But it was *not* possible to pick it up.

    Boulders are weightless for giants, including for hero poly'd into
    giant form. Other than that, they have the same encumbrance
    limits as anyone else.

    You mean some formula calculated from strength and other parameters,
    so that a giant may have a carrying capacity of just 1000, or maybe,
    say, 2000 (but clearly not the 5000 necessary for the bag)?

    Janis

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  • From Pat Rankin@21:1/5 to Janis on Mon Aug 30 09:19:58 2021
    On Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 6:40:37 PM UTC-7, Janis wrote:
    You mean some formula calculated from strength and other parameters,
    so that a giant may have a carrying capacity of just 1000, or maybe,
    say, 2000 (but clearly not the 5000 necessary for the bag)?

    The carrying capacity when poly'd into a giant is exactly the same
    as for an unpoly'd hero with 18/** strength, with the exception that
    boulders weigh 0.

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