What impresses you most about @?

[EpicMan]

How about the ability to carry a sword in one hand, a shield in another, a bow in a third, a lantern in a fourth, and still have one free for using wands/staves/spellbooks/etc.? I'd like to know what "human" means in the Angbandverse. Maybe @ is just very skilled at using his/her feet and mouth? .

While the game only lets @ wear 2 rings, this is because @ has 8 rings (slots are squelched so they don't show up) of +1 arm. This is how he manages to wield all those things and still be able to pick up/drop/rummage through his inventory/etc.

It would be funny (at least, for a short while and for people who didn't get their coffee this morning) if there was a variant that required free hands to do all that stuff, but let the player grow extra arms (and thus be able to do more / wield more) as he gained levels or maybe found "potions of extra arms", until the player had all the equip slots and could *still* do all the other stuff players do.

I'm most impressed with @ in that, no matter how many @s have been brutally slain in the dungeon, they just keep coming until Morgoth goes down.

I'm also impressed with the long-term planning of @. He or She always manages to father/bear a child before heading to the dungeon so there's a descendant to avenge them after they die.

Then there's the strange ability @ has of gaining the memories of his dead ancestor, and the fact that this ability perfectly remembers everything they knew about monsters, but nothing about items, flavors, etc.

[Zyphyr]

While the game only lets @ wear 2 rings, this is because @ has 8 rings (slots are squelched so they don't show up) of +1 arm. This is how he manages to wield all those things and still be able to pick up/drop/rummage through his inventory/etc.

With +8 Arms, @ should get 40 extra fingers. I demand the immediate implementation of ring slots 3 through 42!

[Narvius]

I hope you meant ring slots 11 through 50. Remember, 3-10 are permanently taken!

[Zyphyr]

I hope you meant ring slots 11 through 50. Remember, 3-10 are permanently taken!

Nah, I count the permanently taken ones as -7 to 0.

[sethos]

This extra arms thing looks slippery:
with 40 extra ring slots, we can get another 40 arms!...

Does that come with encumbrance? or a vision penalty? would you still be able to walk, I wonder?

Rather, I'll assume that all @'s are highly proficient Battle Jugglers. From Level 1. Even when their Dex is drained to 1. and they're slowed, confused and blind.
Because that makes more sense.

[EpicMan]

There's a good Variant-fodder class:

The battle juggler:
He can carry more items than other players, but can only use a subset of them on any given turn, as the others are 'in the air'. So one turn he uses his artifact sword, the next he has a spellbook to cast from, the next a wand of cold balls, etc.

[Narvius]

This extra arms thing looks slippery:
with 40 extra ring slots, we can get another 40 arms!...

Does that come with encumbrance? or a vision penalty? would you still be able to walk, I wonder?

I guess they would die off one after another as @s heart can't pump enough blood through ALL of the arms. :P

[Therem Harth]

Apparently @ learned the art of juggling from a Skandar.

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[Arjen]

He can carry millions worth of gold pieces without being encumbered.

[debo]

There's a good Variant-fodder class:

The battle juggler:
He can carry more items than other players, but can only use a subset of them on any given turn, as the others are 'in the air'. So one turn he uses his artifact sword, the next he has a spellbook to cast from, the next a wand of cold balls, etc.

This is a BRILLIANT IDEA!

[caruso]

@ can work out sophisticated plans of action even when being surrounded by enemies.

[joelsanda]

@ does many impressive things but to me, what's most astonishing is his ability to kill worm masses with a lance. I mean, wow!

What impresses you most about @?

His consistent ability to remember the arrows in his House after reading a scroll of Word of Recall ...

[caruso]

@ can disarm a pit trap one-handedly while riding a 2-headed hydra.

[wobbly]

Well seeing as someone dredged this old thread up,

While the game only lets @ wear 2 rings, this is because @ has 8 rings (slots are squelched so they don't show up) of +1 arm. This is how he manages to wield all those things and still be able to pick up/drop/rummage through his inventory/etc.

In Ragnarok you could get mutated & grow extra fingers (for extra ring slots) & extra eyes (I think from memory 1 of the beasties could peck them out). 1/2 the game seemed to be about growing as many extra appendages as you can for more gear slots.

[luneya]

Nah, rings of extra arms aren't required. What @ has is a bag-of-holding-like external-frame backpack featuring attachment points for @'s melee weapon, shield, and bow. Grabbing the appropriate one of these from the external mounting is a free action, which Angband simulates by having them all "wielded" simultaneously. But digging into the pack for other equipment (i.e., to swap) is more difficult, and consumes a full turn.