engine for rand art generation

[Derakon]

Even so, the potential for fatal surprises is awfully high. Especially if your personal flavor of monster detection doesn't pull it up. Imagine a non-evil invisible mindless monster! Super-paranoid detection is already kind of a problem in Angband.

I'm not saying it's not a great idea, mind you. I just think it would work better in a hypothetical variant that was much less "swingy" in its combat system. But if someone implemented it for Vanilla I'd probably give it a shot.

[Patashu]

By the way, one thing I've often thought about is a game with random enemies, not just random items. You could imagine doing the same thing for enemies as for items, i.e., the properties and abilities of a given enemy would be determined randomly in each game, subject to a difficulty target. Many of the questions that come up for artifacts would also be relevant in that context.

Have you tried playing Tome 4 ( http://te4.org/ ) ? It has randomly generated minibosses and so on.

[damerell]

By the way, one thing I've often thought about is a game with random enemies, not just random items. You could imagine doing the same thing for enemies as for items, i.e., the properties and abilities of a given enemy would be determined randomly in each game, subject to a difficulty target. Many of the questions that come up for artifacts would also be relevant in that context.

I'd play randuniques in a flash even if it did mean the occasional comedy instadeath.

[buzzkill]

I imagine if one plays Angband to win, random monsters would be a headache. For those who play specifically for the random variety, currently embodied in the ID game, this would be very enjoyable if done properly. Having only a subset of monsters 'mutate' each game and letting the player know which monsters may have changed sounds pretty awesome to me.

There is a Randomband out there somewhere, though I'm not sure of it's playability.

[Jiharo]

I like "hero" uniques from Z+Angband although they are not entirely random mash-up of powers but an upgraded version of existing monster race.