Next competition

[Derakon]

You could start a character, generate the One Ring, equip it, and then generate and throw away every other artifact. A bit tedious to set up, but effectively you'd get an "artifactless except the One Ring" game.

Play as Feanor the Elf Warrior (or maybe Elf Paladin?) in a forced-descent, no-town, no-item-stacking, monsters-learn-from-experience game. That's about as hard as I can think to make it using the Vanilla option set, given that he starts with the One.

[PowerWyrm]

New V version is out... good candidate for next comp no? And this time something like a force_descent hobbit ranger (randarts on)...

[debo]

New V version is out... good candidate for next comp no? And this time something like a force_descent hobbit ranger (randarts on)...

3.5.1 will definitely be the next comp. I'm very open to character suggestions

The last Vanilla dude we did was a hobbit, but he started with the one ring so it wasn't much like playing a normal game at all.

[HugoVirtuoso]

The Angband 3.5.1 compo should feature a Pixie for a change...

Edit:
Wait, are Pixies in the official Angband 3.5.1 release? I thought they were in a certain devel version of Angband 3.5....

Alternative option:
Half-Troll Ranger!!

[Derakon]

No pixies in Vanilla.

Half-troll mage. We haven't done one of those in awhile.

[PowerWyrm]

The Angband 3.5.1 compo should feature a Pixie for a change...

Edit:
Wait, are Pixies in the official Angband 3.5.1 release? I thought they were in a certain devel version of Angband 3.5....

Alternative option:
Half-Troll Ranger!!

Pixies are suggested for a future release according to the trac database. For 3.5.1, I was suggesting ranger because it's the race that has been played the oldest (comp #128). HT mage is fun too...

[debo]

Pixies are suggested for a future release according to the trac database. For 3.5.1, I was suggesting ranger because it's the race that has been played the oldest (comp #128). HT mage is fun too...

If someone wants to come up with a 3.5.1 comp character, I am open to savefile submissions. I agree that it would be nice to have a 'harder' comp this time around (with some of the sillier difficulty options turned on.)

We have 3ish days until the next competition.

[Jungle_Boy]

My idea is a Half-Orc Rogue named Slink. Forced descend, no preserve, disconnected stairs. Savefile attached, I think.

[Estie]

Randarts ? Its about the only option that matters to me, dont want to find no Caspanion no more :/

[PowerWyrm]

Here's my idea, taken directly from http://www.penancecomic.com/2007/06/21/2-18-penance.

Leon is a human ranger. He has broken the rules of his community. For his penance, he was told to go 5000ft down the fortress of Angband and slay Morgoth. And since he was going to take the task too lightly, the gods decided that no artifacts would cross his path during that task.

Another idea, taken from http://www.penancecomic.com/2007/07/31/3-5-say-it.

Lucky is a half troll mage. He has an interesting background story (see previous link).

Savefiles attached. Both characters are force descent/no selling, with tougher monsters enabled (ai_learn). Leon also has artifacts disabled. I think both characters would be fun to play.

[Jungle_Boy]

Those both sound fun too. I don't think I've ever had a no artifact game, at least not one that got far.

[debo]

Those both sound fun too. I don't think I've ever had a no artifact game, at least not one that got far.

I ended up going with PowerWyrm's Leon. (We hadn't done a ranger in a while.)

Thank you for your contribution, though!

[Jungle_Boy]

I ended up going with PowerWyrm's Leon. (We hadn't done a ranger in a while.)

Thank you for your contribution, though!

You're welcome. I ended up playing slink myself and decided that no preserve is just a death wish waiting to happen.

[debo]

We haven't done a true NPP competition in about a billion years. Any objections to that being next? Also happy to take savefile proposals.

[HugoVirtuoso]

We haven't done a true NPP competition in about a billion years. Any objections to that being next? Also happy to take savefile proposals.

How about an NPP-Angband Human Warrior?