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Perhaps the amount of gold should scale by monster level? One half rounded up?

Speaking of which, shouldn't Hard Gaan-Telet have some form of reward? I mean, a spoon is fine and all, but...

So as far as I can tell, the Sorcerer just has a flat +4 HP cost for BLUDTOPOWA (so at level 1 it's 3*1 + 4 = 7 HP, at level 10 it's 3*10 + 4 = 34 HP). Amusingly enough, despite the penalty being quite stiff at level 1 (and fairly inconsequential at higher levels) it's still possible to get level 1 boss kills, because your net HP gain from casting glyphs outweighs the HP cost from BLUDTOPOWA (spend 1.75 HP to recover 1 MP, spend 1 MP to recover 2 HP). It's just harder to pull off, since you need a high enough max HP that you don't waste any of your recovery - you need to consistently get the full +12 HP from casting BURNDAYRAZ to make the combo work, which requires a max HP of 20+. Or just use PISORF, maybe, although that requires even more scumming (since prepping Binlor generally leaves you with too few walls).

I don't know that it's actually worth the effort of fixing, since it's such a niche case and requires copious amounts of scumming to make it work. Even a Dwarf will have trouble getting enough max HP, since his HP bonus sucks at level 1, so you'll basically need to find either JJ or Earthmother or a pendant of health and BLUDTOPOWA and still have enough tiles remaining to kill the boss. Possible but scum-tastic, and certainly no easier than the other level 1 boss kill strategies. (Basing the Sorcerer's HP recovery on character level would, of course, eliminate the problem altogether...)

There is a reward; your trophies stop selling for 75 and go for 150g. Also, Flaming Dungeons start spawning. That was a big enough deal to me that when the Hard tower was temporarily nearly unbeatable, I went and made a second file so I could play without having my economy cornholed.

I'd say that's a pair of pretty nice rewards as is, spoon or no spoon. That's actually why I don't try to convince anyone to make Hard Horatio any harder; being stuck with 75g trophies is rubbish. Let the Vicious Horatio have all the fun when it's much easier to farm up 10K gold to blow on preps trying 50+ times to beat him.

There is no gold reward for beating Hard GT the first time. Just 9999 gold for beating Vicious GT the first time.