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Just finished knocking off Morgoth for the first time in this new version of FAAngband. What a great job Nick has done. Loads of fun to play!
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“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead -
Oh, I seeWhat a luck!the Pair of Leather Boots of Fëanor
Indeed, an amazing job has been done. I'm still excited since the release of 2.0Aurë entuluva! -
Since when were there "Rings of Power" in the First Age?Comment
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OK, that is fair, though I vaguely recall you being strict about artifacts. Also, is FA using deadliness or damage? From the dump I cannot tell.Comment
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No, it was a pretty cheap shot really
My policy is basically that things that are clearly out of theme (angels) or chronology (Ar-Pharazon) are out. But for FA I'm not going to completely gut all the game mechanics. Rings are an interesting case, because the idea of forging them imbued with powers is clearly a Second Age thing, but the general idea of gems with powers is not as precise - notably Tolkien went back and forth on whether the Elessar was First or Second Age. I've taken the easy route of allowing jewellery items with powers, and given that, I've allowed them to fill basically the same niche as they do in Vanilla. So Rings of Power are more just the most powerful rings you can find than the 9, 7, 3 and 1 from the verse.
Deadliness. The +n% in Melee is a clue, but then there is Shoot to-dam which I should change.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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