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Sometimes I just want to go into the dungeon and smash everything I see. It's fun to just walk around and pulverize stuff, unfortunately you usually get very dead very quickly when trying to do that. I also suffer a lot of deaths it seems right after I lose a high level character because I am not used to being as careful as you have to be with a new character.
I decided to try to create a race that would be able to smash things good but I did not want to create something that made the game too easy so I needed to create some drawbacks to playing it as well. What I came up with is a half-giant, I imagine them as the twisted offspring of giants and something at least humanoid, perhaps even human but not necessarily so. They are immensely powerful but make half-trolls look like willowy beauties. Basically the only thing they are good at is melee, they have a bunch of HP but all their skills besides melee are atrocious. They live short lives and thus they level fairly quickly.
The biggest drawback I gave them is the AGGRAVATE flag, I then tried to make them powerful enough to survive having this. I may have gone too powerful but I'm not sure. What do you think you would need to make it worthwhile to play a character with AGGRAVATE from the beginning? Below you can find the entry from the p_race edit file. I basically replaced the half-elf entry since I never play them anyway. I played one game so far as a half-giant then I made a couple more changes. I made it to around dl 40 without using any magical devices at all then got killed because of lack of escapes when some gravity hounds got me into a room.
N:1:Half-Giant
S:7:-6:-5:-5:5:-12
R:-5:-75:0:-5:0:10:20:-50:5:40
X:15:80:4
I:21:15:5
H:180:5:160:3
W:250:15:250:10
F:IM_ACID | IM_COLD | IM_FIRE | IM_ELEC
F:RES_POIS | REGEN | AGGRAVATE
F:RES_CONFU | RES_BLIND |
F:RES_FEAR | FREE_ACT
C:0
If you are interested give it a try, just copy the above text into your p_race.txt file in place of the half elf entry and start bashing stuff. I'd be interested in any feedback whether from actual play or just as ideas. My goal is to make the early levels moderately easy but not stupidly easy. This character should play as a warrior who kills everything rather than trying to detect and avoid. I know this is very not angbandlike but I like playing that way.
Thanks for any feedback offered!
I decided to try to create a race that would be able to smash things good but I did not want to create something that made the game too easy so I needed to create some drawbacks to playing it as well. What I came up with is a half-giant, I imagine them as the twisted offspring of giants and something at least humanoid, perhaps even human but not necessarily so. They are immensely powerful but make half-trolls look like willowy beauties. Basically the only thing they are good at is melee, they have a bunch of HP but all their skills besides melee are atrocious. They live short lives and thus they level fairly quickly.
The biggest drawback I gave them is the AGGRAVATE flag, I then tried to make them powerful enough to survive having this. I may have gone too powerful but I'm not sure. What do you think you would need to make it worthwhile to play a character with AGGRAVATE from the beginning? Below you can find the entry from the p_race edit file. I basically replaced the half-elf entry since I never play them anyway. I played one game so far as a half-giant then I made a couple more changes. I made it to around dl 40 without using any magical devices at all then got killed because of lack of escapes when some gravity hounds got me into a room.
N:1:Half-Giant
S:7:-6:-5:-5:5:-12
R:-5:-75:0:-5:0:10:20:-50:5:40
X:15:80:4
I:21:15:5
H:180:5:160:3
W:250:15:250:10
F:IM_ACID | IM_COLD | IM_FIRE | IM_ELEC
F:RES_POIS | REGEN | AGGRAVATE
F:RES_CONFU | RES_BLIND |
F:RES_FEAR | FREE_ACT
C:0
If you are interested give it a try, just copy the above text into your p_race.txt file in place of the half elf entry and start bashing stuff. I'd be interested in any feedback whether from actual play or just as ideas. My goal is to make the early levels moderately easy but not stupidly easy. This character should play as a warrior who kills everything rather than trying to detect and avoid. I know this is very not angbandlike but I like playing that way.
Thanks for any feedback offered!
That being said:
I'd say strip it down to resistances and you'd have something.
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