Thornwind Progress

[Sirridan]

You can now kill monsters! Sure... they have no stats right now, but you can make them disappear by trying to walk into them.

Next up: Actual combat, and inventory.

Further future:
Random dungeons
Random items
Consumables
Magic
And my favorite idea, Tombs.

A Tomb is a level that is not randomly generated, it contains one monster who is "sealed" and cannot be found anywhere else. The tomb has guardians and a special way to unlock the monster inside. when a tomb is found, it will always be found at that depth, and you can choose to avoid it (the starting room for it has an up and down stairs always)

[geoff_tewierik]

A Tomb is a level that is not randomly generated, it contains one monster who is "sealed" and cannot be found anywhere else. The tomb has guardians and a special way to unlock the monster inside. when a tomb is found, it will always be found at that depth, and you can choose to avoid it (the starting room for it has an up and down stairs always)

Sounds like the quest levels from Diablo, i.e. the Skeleton King one. Can't say I'd be unhappy to see that in the game, beats random generation of uniques, as you know X will appear on level Y each and every time.

Then again, I could just go back and play Diablo...again.

[Sirridan]

Sounds like the quest levels from Diablo, i.e. the Skeleton King one. Can't say I'd be unhappy to see that in the game, beats random generation of uniques, as you know X will appear on level Y each and every time.

Then again, I could just go back and play Diablo...again.

Most uniques will be randomly placed ala Angband, however some (mostly very powerful) will be in "Tombs". They would have very good loot and would probably take a lot of preparation to defeat.