Hello, all! - also [S] Skill exercise question

I have been reading rgra for some time, on the oook site, but I finally decided
to join in and start asking questions myself.

I have recently started playing Sangband, and I like the system overall. I do,
however, have something I'd like answered.
If you try to raise a skill too fast, you're hit with an experience cost
penalty, which goes away as you exercise the skill. The in-game docs state that
a skill is exercised when you use it to do damage or gain expierience; thus,
combat skills are exercised when you use them to hit or kill things,
Spellcasting is exercised when you hit or kill things with magic, or gain bonus
experience from casting a new spell (is that intentional, BTW?) and Disarming is
exercised by disarming traps and unlocking doors.
What exercises Burglary? I know that its trapping abilities let you damage and
kill monsters, but does anything else count as exercise - using light melee
weapons, for instance? (As the Burglary skill gives specific bonuses to that.)

You can practice burglary by setting traps, and backstabbing monsters. To
backstab a monster, make sure you are sneaking ('S'), then attack them while
they are fleeing or while they are asleep.

Also, sucessful theft trains it as well, IIRC.

Joshua

On 2006-10-03 05:29:23, Andrew Pierce <appierce.DeleteThis@charter.net> wrote:

> I have been reading rgra for some time, on the oook site, but I finally decided
> to join in and start asking questions myself.
>
> I have recently started playing Sangband, and I like the system overall. I do,
> however, have something I'd like answered.
> If you try to raise a skill too fast, you're hit with an experience cost
> penalty, which goes away as you exercise the skill. The in-game docs state that
> a skill is exercised when you use it to do damage or gain expierience; thus,
> combat skills are exercised when you use them to hit or kill things,
> Spellcasting is exercised when you hit or kill things with magic, or gain bonus
> experience from casting a new spell (is that intentional, BTW?) and Disarming is
> exercised by disarming traps and unlocking doors.
> What exercises Burglary? I know that its trapping abilities let you damage and
> kill monsters, but does anything else count as exercise - using light melee
> weapons, for instance? (As the Burglary skill gives specific bonuses to that.)
>
>