RNG, how I hate you

[Nick]

In the process of testing out the latest version of FA, I was in debug mode killing townspeople and waiting for The Complainer to turn up. Killed a Mean-Looking Mercenary; he dropped Leather Sandals of Speed (+5).

Words fail me.

[Phoenix21692]

Wow! I wonder what the RNG has in store next.

[Zikke]

Wow! That's pretty amazing; I always get utter crap from him.




Is his spawn triggered from killing townspeople?

[Nick]

Is his spawn triggered from killing townspeople?

The Complainer can appear any time; I was just killing others while I waited for him to appear, because I wanted to test a weapon on something that wasn't going to die in one round. It wouldn't have been so bad if he had dropped the boots, but it was a mercenary...

[Donald Jonker]

Holy hell. One of those hang-it-up-for-awhile moments.

[Zikke]

This scenario just happened to me today on a lowbie warrior.

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You see a Ring of Free Action.   Right next to a Floating Eye....

I was out of ammo, decided to go for it, got paralyzed but broke free long enough to equip it. In hindsight I could have thrown anything at the eye and killed it, but I was pissed at the RNG teasing me like this...

[will_asher]

Just started a wizard mode game to play like a real game (except without the dying..), to see what it's like deeper than I usually get.
So I find a hard leather armor of elvenkind on L8, a golden crown of seeing on L10, a shield of elvenkind on L12, and a ring of resist poison on L13.

[Mondkalb]

Just started a wizard mode game to play like a real game (except without the dying..), to see what it's like deeper than I usually get.
So I find a hard leather armor of elvenkind on L8, a golden crown of seeing on L10, a shield of elvenkind on L12, and a ring of resist poison on L13.

Those are quite lucky finds.

[aeneas]

Words fail me.

Well, if you play enough you'll get that kind thing again. When I was first trying to learn to play Angband I got killed by Brodda.. I ran from him, I phased, I did everything I could and he still tracked me down and killed me before I could get to the stairs. When I dumped the character I noticed that the unidentified ring I was carrying was =Speed +5. First speed ring I ever found, at 250 feet. Thank God I didn't know how unusual that was, or I might have stopped playing Angband in disgust.

If it's any consolation I just did something stupid and lost a character who found BoS +4 early. http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=9033 Shit happens.

[aeneas]

In the process of testing out the latest version of FA, I was in debug mode killing townspeople and waiting for The Complainer to turn up. Killed a Mean-Looking Mercenary; he dropped Leather Sandals of Speed (+5).

Words fail me.

That sucks. A few years ago, when I sucked at Angband, I decided to try to play faster. I was aiming at getting to 1000' in one trip with a warrior. I had sold everything so I could buy ?recall.

I ran into Brodda. I tried to kill him but- no dice. He just had too many hp. Then I tried to run from him. Again, no dice. He killed me when I was three steps from the stairs. If I had been just a bit faster I would have escaped, but..

I looked at my death dump and saw that one of the un-Ided rings I was carrying was an RoS +5, found at 250'. Thank God I didn't understand what that meant, at the time. I would have been pretty depressed otherwise.

[Psi]

I can't decide if I hate the RNG more than my own stupidity.

I was running a V ironman HE ranger. He'd struggled down past DL50 with nothing better than a dagger of extra attacks and a crappy randart short bow when both his -TOs exploded and his only copy of MB3 was burnt. No id, no satisfy hunger, no food, little hope.

He detected a single ration of food which kept him going until he found 2?Satisfy Hunger. Then a kindly black orc dropped MB3! Things were looking up again. Then over the next few levels he found a Crown of the Magi {ESP}, a randart Great Hammer {+3 attacks}, a randart longbow {+3 to power}, a Sling of Extra Shots, an Elvenkind Shield {rConf}, _Speed and an !Augmentation. All of a sudden he could take care of himself.

Then temptation was presented to him: A long, long corridor of Algoroths, the escort of a certain departed Stone Troll. I commited the first deadly sin of Angband. I held down the arrow key and ploughed through the poor sods. Oh how I was enjoying my guilty pleasure... but then... tombstone. The room at the end of the corridor contained time hounds.

[Zikke]

You are just a man. Hopefully you savored the moment of weakness, short as it was.

[Psi]

You are just a man. Hopefully you savored the moment of weakness, short as it was.

I enjoyed it more than I expected. It was like sticking my fingers up at the RNG - unfortunately the RNG always laughs last.

[Nick]

It's got all the classic ingredients - the high-born fallen on hard times, the struggle with adversity, the triumph, the moment of hubris, the tragic fall... you should sell the rights.

[Mondkalb]

It's got all the classic ingredients - the high-born fallen on hard times, the struggle with adversity, the triumph, the moment of hubris, the tragic fall... you should sell the rights.

That's what all of us are waiting for: "Angband - The Movie"!
A tragic hero in his epic fight against evil. With stunning effects!